New Years Day at the ZOO!

We had a great New Years Eve and Day this year!

New Years Eve ...

my parents were kind enough to keep Josiah for us so we could go on a date. We had dinner at Outback thanks to my in-laws who gave me a gift card for there at Christmas...it was delish! Then we went to the movies to try and see The Blind Side. We bought our tickets and when we got into the theatre there were no two seats available together in the whole theatre...except for way down in the front...boo! So we got our money back and went to Marble Slab, I got my favorite...sweet cream with strawberries mixed in, in a chocolate and nut dipped cone....mmmm! Then we went to see The Blind Side at a different theatre and it was AWESOME! I definitely want to own that one!

New Years Day was a blast too...we took Josiah to the ZOO!

He was totally into the big animals that were easy to spot... he stared and laughed and talked about them, not that we could understand what he was saying, but as always he sure did have a lot to say.

There were two baby giraffes...one was only 10 months old. Did you know that a newborn giraffe is 6ft tall and weighs 135 lbs?! Crazy!Josiah watched the giraffes very intensely!

He was also quite captivated by this Baboon! This thing was kind of tempramental...he kept coming right up to the fence, staring us in the eyes and bowing up a little!

The zoo had some new lady lions, the male and all the females were out and in plain view so Josiah was pretty intrigued!

His little face looks so curious and excited in this pic, I feel like it says "Dad! Did you see those things?"

The elephants were a big hit too...one of them was getting pretty rough trying to move a large tree branch with his trunk...entertaining!

We asked this guy to take a family picture of us right before we left and just as he tried to take the pic our camera died...turns out he was a big photography guy and he offered to take the pic for us and email it to us...he went above and beyond and enhanced and cropped some of them for us! So kind!

Last but certainly not least...be sure to check out the video below of the monkeys! This was the highlight of the day. I forgot what these monkeys were called Siamung or something...I dunno...but when we were watching the baboon from above we kept hearing these really loud monkey noises and couldn't figure out what it was coming from. We rounded the corner and saw a huge crowd of people standing around this one cage and staring up at these three monkeys and everyone was cracking up. These little monkeys stole the show, they were like egging eachother on it seemed like! Apparantely they are the loudest primates in the world...their call can be heard over a mile away and can last for 20 minutes...and we witnessed the truth behind that fact! The males call out over and over followed by a cry from the female that sounds different. And their throats blow up huge when they make the noise...which is what amplifies the sound so much. Josiah sat in his stroller for about 10 minutes mesmerized by the show...that is a LONG time for him to sit and be interested in something! So if you wanna go see them...supposedly they do this every morning at dawn and then again just before lunch.
Anyways, the video doesn't do it justice cause you can't hear one of the low pitched calls very well or tell how loud it really was but check it out...pretty funny!

Happy New Year Everyone!