My Selfie Zoo Tour

I am not a selfie kind of picture guy, until I went to the St. Louis Zoo this past Monday.  I took my first one early that morning when I was holding a scared Caleb on the carousel and I wanted to take a picture.  Our tenderfoot got tired of the ride pretty quickly, so he hung with me.

Our day got off to a bang rushing to make it to the carousel which is free for the first hour.  Austin got tripped up by the wheel of the stroller I was pushing and I took him out.  But he recovered fast!

After the Carousel we rushed to the children’s zoo entrance  because it is also free admittance the first hour.  The first stop was the goats.  Landon was pumped.  He for some reason thought it was cool to brush the goats fast and to brush their bottoms and back legs!  For some reason, bet you can’t figure it out, the goats would not stand still for Landon, but were so calm and pleasant for Brooke!  This was a tough selfie to take, plus I had to explain to another visitor that I didn’t need them to take our picture, even though I was obviously having trouble taking my own!  On the way out of the goats, Brooke tripped over my foot and fell down hard.  2 kids taken out in the first hour (way to go Dad!).

This was a tough one!  I was airing up the stroller tires while the kids played on the playground.  It didn’t work, the tube was bad, so I got a little extra exercise for the day.

Me and Austin with the Elephants.  There was a baby elephant which I took traditionally for you to see as well.

These were my favorite ones!  I am so lucky to have this girl in my selfie everyday!!  This was at our picnic lunch in Forrest Park just outside the zoo. If you go, be sure and park there, if you can because it is free and is a beautiful park.

Here we go showing off our silly side!

Anybody see Caleb?  He is the one under the blue hood!

And Caleb with the hood off showing his sweet face.  We are obviously too uncool for Austin — 9 year olds!  We had to force him into this one!

This is me and Brooke with the gorilla statue.  Speaking of seeing the gorillas, we had one scare us all.  He was planted beside one of the glass viewing areas.  We were literally right next to him, except for the glass.  He starts to get up and throws his arms and body at us slamming the glass and making a threatening face.  Caleb cried and we all jumped.  He got us!

Brooke gets two pictures because the trip was all connected with her birthday which is Sunday.  She will be seven years old.  She is so sweet and precious and has her dad around her finger!  We love her.  This picture was in the underwater tunnel of the sea lions.

Hope you enjoyed my selfie tour of the zoo.  Other than me being in all the pictures, I bet it was enjoyable.  If you don’t like these, just wait till I post the pictures from Amanda’s camera of me trying to take the selfies!