This past weekend we went to the Zoo. This is one of Ava's favorite things to do. We have a family pass for Evansville’s Mesker Park Zoo and Botanical Gardens. They just finished up a huge renovation, which was a $15 million, 10,000-square-foot South American rain forest addition. This part is super cool. They added a jaguar, howler monkeys, keel-billed toucans, squirrel monkeys, a Baird's tapir, capybara and caiman. Also the Forest of Riches, has a wide variety of tropical plants and trees.
She really enjoys the giraffe, not in the new part of Amazonia, but this is her favorite animal. While we were getting close to the giraffe, I was taking pictures and not paying a whole lot of attention. The giraffe came about 6 inches from licking my bald head. Yuck!!!!!!