goose goose lemur

on sunday, before making the long drive back to minneapolis, we made one more three-year old birthday pitstop at the great plains zoo.

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when you first enter you get to see all of the animals standing completely still. how nice of them. better for photographing.

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i liked this wall. who wants to help me paint a wall in my crafting room with this sort of scene?

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hannie is a silly monkey.

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they’re just playing.

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monkey pile!

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such a fashionable little fish.

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karyn was eaten by a hippo before we even got to see any moving animals. tragic!

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ok, enough of this. real animals, please!

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the first animal we saw outside was a peacock and this is about all that i remembered from the zoo when i first visited a million years ago.

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the alpaca was the most apprehensive.

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after hannie rode the carousel (the first time), i had to go look at most of the african animals alone. because she wanted to keep riding the carousel.

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lazy cheetahs! very boring.

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this is the baby rhino that, at one point, hannie was excited about. before the carousel happened.

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hannie’s last ride on the carousel was with me. honestly? i got kinda dizzy.

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i like lemurs because they look like cats with even crazier eyes.

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we ended our visit with the asian kitties. and there was one i’ve never seen before: pallas’ cat! adorable.

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he was a little bigger than a house cat and he was all chatter-y and chirp-y. wanted to bring him home!

and i thought about him the whole way home to minneapolis. (not really) (maybe)

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