Fun at the Zoo

For the past week we have been fortunate to get a break from the cold.  The temperatures have been in the 60's with plenty of sun.  Valentine's Weekend saw a continuation of the beautiful weather so we decided to take the kids to one of their favorite places-the Atlanta Zoo.  

Susan and Will both love watching the Flamingos.  They are the first animals you see when you enter the zoo. 

This is a picture of Mei Lan, the panda born at the Atlanta Zoo a little over 2 years ago.  She is almost full grown now.

And this is the new baby panda born at the Atlanta Zoo a couple of months ago.  His name is Xi Lan.  This is a picture of him and his mom Lun Lun.  The 2 of them were playing and we really had fun watching them.   

Within the last year at the zoo there was quite the baby explosion.  These are the not so little lion cubs playing.

Here is the proud daddy and 2 of the lion cubs.  They have official names, but Will refers to the lions as Mufasa, Sirabe, Simba, Nala, and Scar.  If those names sound familiar, it's because they are the names of the lions in the movie "The Lion King".

Will doing his best lion roar.

One of Will's favorite animals at the zoo is the Komodo Dragon.  The is a bronze statue of the Komodo outside the reptile house that Will loves to play on.

Daddy and Susan on the Merry-go-round.

The have recently renovated a play area at the zoo and put in some great new playground equipment.  Of course they have a big, curvy slide that, up until today, Susan had been afraid to go down.  She decided that she was finished watching Will have all the fun and away she went.  After that, there was no stopping her.  She kept saying "1 more minute" so she could down the slide again.

Daddy, Susan, and Will on the train.

All 4 of us having fun on the see-saw.