A New Black Friday Tradition

Yesterday, I was not one of the crazy people out shopping at 4 in the morning. Yesterday, the only time that I went to the store was around 4 in the afternoon and that was for cat food and diapers. Yesterday, Jack and I started a new Black Friday tradition. We went to the zoo instead of shopping and frankly it was great. We got to the zoo about 5 minutes before it opened. It was a little chilly so we had jackets, hats and a blanket. The good thing about getting there first thing in the morning was that all of the animals were awake. Jack likes when the animals are up and moving around. All he could talk about was seeing the giraffes - he loves those guys.


He saw that the elephant was eating and said "Mommy he eating with his nose."



Of course when we get to the giraffes there were 4 of them standing right up at the fence. Jack kept saying "Hi giraffes" and then he saw a baby one and he kept telling me about the baby.




Jack thought these guys were funny. Can you guess which one is the baby and which one is the mom? I'll tell you at the end of the post. There was a keeper there and she told us that the baby is not a year old and almost bigger than his mom. She also said that he hasn't gone into the pond yet that is in their enclosure - he almost did yesterday but changed his mind.

We got about three quarters of the way through the zoo and Jack fell asleep. He ended up missing all of the monkeys. Here is a picture of him sleeping in his stroller.



So I think that the Kees Family now has a new Black Friday tradition that does not include shopping. The answer to the jaguar question is the one that is standing next to the fountain and the very tall grass is the baby and the one on top of the rocks in front of the bushes is the mom. She was keeping a very close watch on him the whole time we were there. Have a great week!