Lions, Leopards and Giraffe's....Oh My!

A couple weekends ago Mike and I decided to take a little trip down to Greenville for a visit to the zoo. I was a little worried that we wouldn't see anything since it was August and if you've been in SC in August you know that its hot and very humid. But Mike assured me that since it was late morning and cloudy that we would probably see some animals. I'm glad we went cause it was great! It wasn't too crowded so we got to look at animals as long as we wanted and since its not a huge zoo we went around twice (their are some animals that were just too cute to not sneak a second peak) Now to address the title of this post. I know you're all thinking...wait...that's not how it goes but the saddest part of our trip was that we didn't get to see any tigers or bears but we did get to see some giraffe's and some adorable leopards :) Thus the name of the blog....maybe my new saying will catch on :)

We caught Mufasa....the king of the savannah and what was he doing??? Just typical cat stuff...gotta get those 20 hours in

Mike loved the giraffe's! Just look at that spine!!!

We loved the leopards! I just wanted to go hug one! Now onto Mike's favorite animal in the zoo....the red panda! Master Shifu!

Just look at that face! These pictures really don't show how adorable this little panda was. He was good at posing for the camera too :) Now for my favorite animal and surprise surprise...it's a member of the cat family...the ocelot!

Unfortunately, they did not want to cooperate with me so this was the best picture that I could get but they really were so cute. And now for some more highlights from the trip:

These two monkey's are howler monkeys. They were adorable on our first trip around but halfway through the second they started howling. I couldn't believe how loud they were! I was trying to imagine what the rainforest must sound like if this was just 2 monkeys! Needless to say that I got a headache but I felt better when I saw the leopards (in the cage across from them) pacing up and down. I was so close to letting them out and letting them devour those monkeys...I know they wanted to.

This is Ellie...ellie the elephant that is.

This little guy was far less annoying and sat there for a few minutes and let everyone take his picture. I think he liked the attention and he was pretty cute.

We had a great time at the zoo! We just love seeing all of the animals! Next we want to visit the Columbia zoo and then go down to Busch Gardens and go on the safari but in the meantime its nice to have a zoo close to our house.