Sunday, September 26, 2010

Woodland Park Zoo Merit Badge Clinic

Yesterday was the Woodland Park Zoo Merit Badge Clinic. There, Evyn and I worked on our Pathfinding merit badge. It is a Centennial merit badge, so it is only offered this year.

After the merit badge clinic was over, we met up with the rest of our family to go looking around the zoo.

One of my favorite exhibits was the Poison Dart Frogs. Since I was little, I have loved frogs. The ones below I thought were really cute.


The snow leopards were awesome. I love their bushy tails. When Evyn and I walked around at lunch break, we saw them lounging around, but apparently, the others saw them playing with each other.


At the zoo, there is a bird area where you can go into the building and look at/feed Australian birds. My favorite were the Budgerigars, like the one below.


They were so small. I kept trying to feed them with a bit of feed on a stick of feed I had found. The sticks cost like a dollar, but I got lucky and found one on the ground. I couldn't convince a budgie to come eat, but another bird did.


This is the picture we took as we were leaving. I stood in the shade of a tree so I wouldn't be squinting. We had such a great time at the zoo.