pspan style=”font-size:85%;” I caught the school bus with about 30 kids on Monday for the long ride to the Minnesota Zoo. I really like going to the zoo especially to watch the bears. This trip I found a bond with a new animal, Giraffes. /span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Smnp5pbvh-I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/IhRA6tBVQYI/s1600-h/zoo+068.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Smnp5pbvh-I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/IhRA6tBVQYI/s400/zoo+068.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362074007945316322″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;” Giraffe’s have 18 inch purple tongues/span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Smnp6ZsvUGI/AAAAAAAAARM/F8vyOxW-pRU/s1600-h/zoo+065.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Smnp6ZsvUGI/AAAAAAAAARM/F8vyOxW-pRU/s400/zoo+065.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362074020901507170″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;” Larry and Connor feeding the Giraffes.br / Thanks Corey for hooking us up with the Giraffe feeding. /span/p p align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://www.xcskilife.com/images/zoo%20048.JPG” width=”550″ height=”413″ /br / Jaden and Jazzy working on their knot tying skills/span/p p align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://www.xcskilife.com/images/zoo%20052.JPG” width=”550″ height=”733″ /br / Darien, Connor, Kayliegh, and Larry./span/p p align=”left”span style=”font-size:85%;”Our first stop at the zoo, my favorite exhibit Russia’s Grizzly Coast. Unfortunately the long drive meant that we missed the bears morning activity so they were napping. We did make several trips back to the exhibit and were able to catch Sadie, the biggest bear, swimming in the afternoon. Last year all three bears were playing tag when we visited, check out the
