{Terri's Birthday Wish} Going to the Zoo :)

Like so many middle-aged birthdays I did not have a party to celebrate the day I was born....instead my amazing boyfriend {Nathan} and my wonderful parents {Rod & Linda} joined me in going to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo.  It has been way too long since I have been there and I wanted to get out on the town/away from home.  So I loved my 25th birthday trip...it seems like when you get older the less parties you get to celebrate, but you still get older :)

One amazing waterfall...too bad I couldn't have this |view| |sound| |smell| in my back yard :)

Of course we always have the wonderful jungle section to see/visit in the Zoo.  It is so amazing to see new life growing and around.  While we were here this day we got to see a mother and her baby monkey playing around.  Well it looked like the baby wanted to play while the mother was hoping to clean and/or feed her baby.  But either which way it was very cute to watch a mother with her little baby. 

Here is the cute little mother and baby :)

While we moved to the next area we decided to take cover at one of the newly added domes.  In this dome we got to walk among the butterflies.  While getting ready to go into the butterfly garden we needed to be checked for anything that may attract butterflies to us [such as food].  While walking through the gardens we got to see very beautiful colors and the carelessness of everyone in their surroundings.  There were several times that butterflys would tag along anyone that would allow, but you can be sure that when we left everyone got checked to make sure that if a butterfly was riding along that it did not stay.  They needed to make sure the butterflies stayed in their building.  Below is a picture of all the varieties of butterflies you could see in the gardens |if you looked hard enough that is|.

After walking with the butterflies for the day we went to the Aquarium to see all the new babies |mainly jellyfish| and the larger fish too :).  Of course it never ends while I am in with the fish it is something about the dome shapes of the glass that make me feel a little whoozy, but it is worth it to see all the amazing fish that {if out looking on your own would take you a lifetime to see} you would not normally see....so here are a few that we saw.....

 Here are a few more pictures of our adventures at the Zoo.....

This gorilla had his back towards the glass trying to ignore everyone walking past to see what was going on.  While we were coming up on this area all we could hear was a loud "thud" then laughter....as we further investigated and found out....people were sitting with their backs towards the glass.  In case you are in the same loop as we were |this pisses the gorillas off; they hate being ignored...go figure|  So we stood and watched for a while as a lady was brave enough to sit with her back against the glass....gorilla at the time is pacing back and forth getting closer to the lady.  And out of nowhere this gorilla sits down and slams his fist against the window right at the lady's head....as I jumped and she did too we learned something new for the day....so yes I will not be sitting with my back against the window with a gorilla on the otherside as you never know how many times this has been done before or even if the glass can hold up with all those powerful hits.



It is a little hard to see, but the mother had 1 cub that was very active today when we were walking past.  This little cub was jumping on the mother and pulling the tail while she was up walking around.  Of course when we were walking away the little cub was going down for a nap.

As we were heading out for the afternoon...On to Golden Corral for supper :)  Yumm-O