Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

The day after the wedding we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. A pretty impressive feat as we were all exhausted from the big event.

The best thing about the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is that you can feed the giraffes their special giraffe crackers. Giraffes have long purple tongues.
The boys really enjoyed the budgie building. My mom is a budgie magnet so we all mooched off the budgies that came to visit her food stick.
Since I last visited, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has added a lot of really great exhibits. We were especially impressed by the new mountain lion, wolf, and grizzly habitats.

The peacock and wallaby showing off for the crowd.

Beckett and Nate wore their sunglasses.

Beckett also really loved this orangutan, and she seemed to like him too.

For dinner we went to Red Top, a Colorado Springs classic. I include the following picture because on this trip Beckett discovered rice chex, and he would not eat anything else.
All too soon we had to head back to Kansas. Beckett really did well on the drive. Here he is just reading away in his car seat.