Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Jason, Katie, Drew and I joined Camden and her two youngest on an excursion to the Pointe Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on Monday, June 22nd.   This was Drew’s first visit to a zoo and Katie hadn’t been to a zoo since the Fletchers went to San Diego when she was one – poor deprived children of mine {wink, wink} 

Unfortunately, I only have mediocre phone pictures of our visit, but they are memories nonetheless.

We saw lots of animals throughout the day, but our favorites were the gigantic and stinky walruses, the adorable sea otter lounging with a pool floatie, and the white-cheeked gibbon that gracefully glided around with his long arms.  The most recent births at the zoo are the Sumatran tiger cub triplets born in October 2014.  They didn’t look all that little to me.

The kids enjoyed splashing around in the stingray tanks.

Not sure if any of my three kiddos actually touched a stingray, but they faked it well.

We were able to listen to a little educational bit on sharks – he was telling us about how safe sharks really are and that the likelihood of being attacked is a near impossibility – yeah, tell that to the eight people attacked in North Carolina last month!

Drew wasn’t concerned

The “animal” exhibit Drew got most excited about the entire afternoon was looking at the fish tanks.  Jason tried to help Drew get a closer look.

Gotta get a group kid shot in the giant jaws of a Megalodon shark

Then some more touchy-feely sea creatures

We watched a corny little skit in the amphitheatre.  Drew was pretty entertained for the most part.

They brought out several animals as part of the skit.

Before heading home the kids insisted on playing at the playground.

Unfortunately, the only hippo at this zoo.

Drew was so exhausted that crawled up into someone’s empty stroller.  He was so still it looked like he was going to fall asleep, but I think he didn’t want to budge because he got  embarrassed when the owner of the stroller spoke to him.

He didn’t waste any more time after that and played until we dragged all the kids away.  Drew went down this slide over and over and over…

Drew was asleep before we even made it to the freeway.  Successful zoo trip with some fun friends!