I Like To Smile. Smiling's My Favorite

Today the girlies and I joined the Hearts Apart group for their monthly outing along with some other gals from the squadron. This month they went to the Reid Park Zoo. Any of you who know us know that we love the zoo. We are annual pass holders and we go every chance we get. The animals must sense that spring is in the air or something, because today they were a smiley bunch.

 The young elephants were wrestling around and having a big ole time. Look at all those smiling faces!

How cute is this? 

CHEESE!

While some animals were all smiles, others were all show-offs. 

The girls even got in some interaction with the local wildlife followed by a liberal dollop of Purell. Thanks Laura! Den was super excited about this one.

My favorite part of the day, however, came when we got to see the jaguar enrichment program. The zoo's jaguars, Nikita and Simone are 17 year old sisters and they are pretty much always asleep. It was so cool to be able to see them up and active in their enclosure.

 

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