Hogle Zoo - July 1st

It's a saggy elephant butt!

Eddie and I love the Hogle Zoo! It only takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours to see the whole zoo!

This peacock walked across the path right in front of us. It has the most beautiful feathers.
The baby elephant is only a year old. So cute!!!
We saw 4 elephants!

This one was eating the whole time. I love this picture! It's just the cutest shot!

They have 2 Rhinos. One was laying down in the shade! It was rather toasty, so I didn't blame it.

Penguins!!! We love Penguins!!!

The ostriches were funny! They kept running around. They are the oddest looking creatures. You put them together with a giraffe and you can almost see dinosaurs!!!

One of our most favorite places at Hogle Zoo is the giraffe house!! I love how you can go upstairs and be closer to their heads! It's just fun to see a giraffe that close and personal!!!

I made friends with this giraffe. We were talking to each other. No words, no noise, just lots of lips moving! Kinda like Elvis!

I think he liked me!!!

Very beautiful animal!!!

The tigers were awesome. Back in the 90's they only had one tiger and one lion. Now they have more tigers and a better habitat for them too!

Tigers are my favorite animals!!!

In the 90's they only had a tiny crocodile. We used to spend lots of time staring at the tiny crocodile in the 90's, because it was Mattman's favorite!!! Thanks to Peter Pan and Capt. Hook. They have 3 crocodiles now. 2 big ones and a brand new baby that was just born!!!

The gorilla is always fun. He was just sitting there and then when all the kids were up against the glass, he came over to check them out. It was so cute!!!

Anniversary Trip Part 2

Can't check into our hotel in St. George until 3pm, so to kill time on the way to Utah, we stopped at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. We love to see what they've done with their Botanical Gardens.

Very pretty! A fun summer garden theme!

Do you recognize these flowers????

I loved their water ball fountain!

The snails were really cool too! The roses they used are just like the roses in Uncle Earl's funeral arrangements! They're so unique and beautiful!

The aunts were a little creepy!

It was fun to watch them freshen up the frog and other critters in the garden!

Butterflies and hot air balloons and flowers galore!

Cute lady bugs!

Love the pot!

Watering cans were cool too!

Hot air balloons, mushrooms and the frog!

The bees! they were really big! And the glass blown flowers!!!

More bees and the glass flowers! back side of pot!

Love the pot and shovel!

And water everywhere! If you've never stopped to see the botanical garden at the Bellagio! You should! It not hard to get to...you don't have to go any where near the casino! It's fun! If you do go don't forget to check out the chocolate fountain down the hall from the gardens!!!

Anniversary Trip Part 1

The last few months in pictures

In May the great nephews and great niece came to visit. They are adorable.
Above is Ares, below is Adam.

This is Tessa

Work took us on adventures to Kern County. This is the hotel we stayed at in Delano...Liberty Inn.

This is a cool "car" we saw in Delano. It looked like something out of the Flintstones, except it had a motor, not a foot-mobile!

Eddie loved it!

Pretty cool!

The beautiful scenery of Kern County!

I got to go to several dumps!!!

We got to go to Tehachapi a couple of times too. We loved Stallion Springs and Bear Valley!

An awesome bbq in Bakersfield.

It really was beautiful. The poppies were gone, but the lavender flowers were beautiful!!!

The hills look like velvet!

Stay tuned

A new post coming soon!!!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Our holiday weekend is starting early this week. We are already supposed to be there, but Eddie in his wisdom decided we should sleep and leave early, i mean early in the morning. He's asleep and I'm supposed to be heading there sometime. I need to pay bills and pack!

So...we are spending the next week in Delano, Lost Hills, Wasco, Taft, Bakersfield, Lamont, Arvin and Tehachapi! Not necessarily in that order!!! It should be an adventure. The project we are working is coming to a close. What we were planning to do in two weekends we've been asked to squish together and get done sooner, so the project will be finished!!!! Woo Hoo! So un-prepared!
Have a lovely holiday!