Hogle Zoo

What do two college age students do when they have their last day off of school for the semster? THEY GO TO THE ZOO!


Yes, that's right blog followers! This morning Aubrie and I got up, packed a lunch, and headed off to Salt Lake to visit the many animals at the Hogle Zoo! It was a blast :) The drive down was filled with Justin Bieber, Glee and love songs (You know you wish you had accompanied us, haha :) )


The first attraction we visited was Discovery Land:

Snow is not my natural habitat, as you can tell...

Is she turtley enough for the turtle club?

It's DINO-AUBS! Be afraid...

I was being consumed by a basilisk...and LOVIN' IT! :)

And then a crocodile decided to taste my skull.  I must've looked especially attractive today :)

And then we finished by going to this meerkat place. It was quite entertaining poking our heads out through the holes. Getting to the spot though was kind of freaky. It was dark, smelt funny, and there were scorpions throughout the hallway...CREEPY! (I don't care if the scorpion was behind glass. If it really wanted to, it could've gotten to me!) But the pictures turned out good:

Meerkat Aubrie! Don't you just want to pet her? :)

This is my 'Why is that person staring at me? Doesn't she know it this is all the rage?'

Next we crossed a bridge, and Aubrie contributed this little gold nugget to our collection :)

"Caution: Don't get too close, we bite"

Aubrie told me en route that she was afraid of the lion water fountain at the zoo when she was little. So when we got there we had to overcome her fears, and then take some fun pictures while we were at it. Don't worry, she is now pals with Leo the Lion! (It was a touching experience...brought tears to my eyes *sob*)

Still, it was a little sketchy sticking our faces into his mouth...

And then, The Thing showed up!

Next stop: Nature's Nightmares. The place was basically a sauna, which we welcomed because it was quite chilly outside. It warmed up our bones, and it displeased our noses. I think I found though why it reeked so bad...

You can't really see it, but I am standing next to a skunk. Eww!

At the great ape habitat they had a full scale size outline of an ape. So what did we do? Yes, we took pictures :)

My family is known for having long arms. Luckily my arm-to-leg ratio is not as bad as these guys!

She won the award for best ape face!

Just so you can see what it looked like without us blocking it :)

 We then went to the elephant habitat, and they had this fun metal elephant out front! A nice zookeeper was walking by and offer to take a picture of us! So nice! :)

When we first passed by the elephants, they were not out due to the temperature, but on our second pass, we saw them! Including the one year old, Zuri (who was so precious!!)

Getting some momma love! <3

In the small animal place, we saw some fun birds and monkeys!

A capuchin monkey! Like from Night at the Museum!!

This is Zabumafoo! For reals

We were twinners, since we were both decked out in pink!

We also saw some Tigers in the Asian Highlands. They didn't move at all while we stared at them.

There they were...just sleeping in the snow. Lazy bums. I wanted some action! Some heart felt roars! Crying children, etc etc.

This made me giggle.

And we then visited the rhino statue (because the rhinos were not allowed to come out today due to cold weather and snow on the ground :( sad, sad day)

I know, you're jealous!

She is much more graceful than I am...

We wanted to ride on the train and go see us some bison. The train, however, was not operating. So we took some fun pictures instead!

Railroad crossing, look out for the cars...

can you spell it with out any r's?

We had so much fun at the zoo! It was a day well spent. Here are some last pictures of us:

Mercedes