Loving the zoo, part 2

It is always fun to feed the fish.  A wise young mom who visits the zoo alot mentioned that having a small baggie to put the food into is helpful.  And it is!

 Claire did NOT want to feed the fish.

 Another selfie!

 We were ready for a break - to play and eat lunch.

Animal crackers are appropriate!

This squirrel was interesting -

he slipped INTO the trash box for more food.

 Isn't that just a look of disgust?

"Who you takin a picture of, lady?" 

Out of the water today.

I don't know as if I've ever seen them out together like that. 

I really love having my grandparent discount at the zoo!  Now these 2 kids need to come to Kansas sometime when the weather is good so we can take them with us!

We love the zoo!

The girls had a day off of school last week so we all went off to the zoo

 while their mommy shopped in the big city!

Entrance to the zoo

We like to bring the wagon along just in case one gets tuckered out.

Plus we bring our lunch along and that would be too heavy to carry.

The day we went was a little bit chilly so we wore our jackets most of the time.

 At our zoo, the first thing you come to are the flamingos.

The girls were all into actions that day.

We generally get maps to carry along.

We know the zoo lay out, but we like maps!

There are maps along the route and the girls enjoy seeing where we are.

This day we went to see the chimps first.  

They happen to be one of my favorite

Next, we decided to go to the rain forest.

We were rather chilly and that is indoors.  

Hannah enjoys taking pictures and took a lot of these!

These bats just fly and crawl around over us!  Yeek!!

Under water tunnel

This flower almost looks like some creature with an open mouth!

 

 

The zoo is close to the Wichita airport so one sees many planes

 Hannah began taking several selfies.  I've never tried that with my Nikon.  Just with my smart phone.  Actually, I can't take a good selfie for anything.  They are just laughable pictures and my daughter says I should do a post with all my crazy selfies.  Nope.

My granddaughter had to point out that this was actually 2 snakes wrapped around eachother.
See the 2 heads?

 I do NOT like wolves.  Too many horror stories from our ancestors.  These guys frighten me!

Know the difference between a bison and a buffalo?

Is there a difference?

According to livescience.com, "Early American settlers called bison "bufello" due to the similar appearance between the two animals, and the name "buffalo" stuck for the American variety.  But it's wrong.  The American bison lives only in North America, while the two main buffalo species reside in Africa and Asia."

Tigers coming next.

In another post.

Tulsa trip

Last year, the Voices of Zambia came to our church.  I wrote about them in another blogpost that you can see here.  Well, Oscar and Harold, who we sponsor, were back in the States once again.  The closest they would come to Kansas was Tulsa, Oklahoma.  That's only 3 hours away.  Al had the day off so off we went to see them!

How would you like to live so close to these??  Al says the center hub of these windmills is the size of a bus!

Man, you can really see the bug juice on the windshield!  Summer is fast approaching when you see that!

 Looks like there was a fire here!

 I always look forward to this lake as we enter Sand Springs.

We looked up on our smartphone where a good place to eat might be.  Found this place close to the church we were going to.

Yokozuna

Technically, a yokozuna is a sumo wrestler with the highest rank in the sport.

But when I was a kid, Yokozuna was also the name of an American Polynesian sumo wrestler who my Dad and the rest of us really liked!  He weighed over 500 pounds!  Unstoppable in the sumo rink!

We ordered some Japanese food (was not quite as Japanese as I am used to but it was ok).   We could tell it was a popular place to be.

 After dinner, we drove the 5 minutes to the church where our boys were!

 Harold played the jimbe and Oscar is besides him.

Harold will be getting married in a couple of years (she needs to finish school).
Both boys are working at the International Bible school in Lusaka, Zambia now.
Blessings to these kids!

It was a late night getting home but so worth the trip.  We pulled off to stretch our legs for a little bit. After we got back on the road, we were detoured off.  There had been a fatal accident.  As I read up on it later, we both recognized right away who the driver was as we had passed this person who was driving so very slowly before we pulled off.  So sad.  And perhaps if we hadn't pulled off, we would have been involved in it.



This week I read this quote.  "Are we so earthly minded that we have lost the joy and peace that come with the anticipation of our  heavenly home?"  We must always be prepared.  What if I died today? One of the reasons we sponsor Gospelink is so the Gospel can go out, telling people about the Good News of the Gospel.  What hope we have!  The older I get the more I anticipate and yearn for Heaven!