Boise Zoo

On our way to and from my sister's wedding we stayed in Boise over-night. After one of our stays we went to the Boise Zoo. Its a nice little zoo, and the boys had fun out of the car for a couple of hours.

Super-cool slide.

Diggin for dinosaurs.

One of the things I really like about this zoo is all of the animal statues the kids can climb on. And do my kids love climbing!

Ginormous Bengal Tiger. The boys were not at all afraid.

Penguin exhibit.

This elephant is spraying water--Dallon would not leave it alone! He kept going back to it and we practically had to drag him away. The kid loves water, and combine that with an elephant and it is apparently irresistable.

So we took Bianca with us, and we were pretty careful to keep her out of sight of lots of the animals. I had heard that a dog is very stressful for the monkeys--so we avoided taking her near them. And we tried to keep her from seeing most of the animals so she wouldn't be stressed. However, we did have a couple of incidents. There was a squirrel that was running down the path in front of us--which is like torture to a dog with hunting instincts! She barked at it, and we had to stay put for a while before she was settled enough to continue without searching out that darn squirrel. The other incident involved the lions. The lions are new, and we were unfamiliar with how the exhibit was set up. So I tried to walk Bianca around and past the exhibit (so we didn't have to walk all the way back around the other way) and we went pretty quickly. However, one of the lionesses (you can see her in the picture above--Chris took this picture before she spotted us) spotted Bianca and got up to stalk us! She was practically running to the glass as we hurried by. Thank goodness Bianca didn't see her! It was really a very creepy feeling for me to have that huge lioness hunting us...I'll take the extra exercise and go the long way out next time.