Happy Valentine's Day

Since our sledding plans fell through, Matt asked me if I wanted to go to the Toledo Zoo. I've been wanting to go for a while, so to me this was a no brainer.



I figured I could give you the quick photo tour...

We started at the aquarium:

I loved this tank because of the interesting rays and because I thought the fish looking at me looked like they were smiling for the camera. :)


This little dude was my favorite fish. It would pop in and out of it's hole and everytime he would surface out of his hole, he would spit out sand. It was as if he were tidying up his house! That's my kind of fish!!

Then on to the elephants:

Since it's so cold outside, the elephants have to live indoors for now. Poor guy, I kept wanting to put a cup in his trunk so he could rattle it through the bars and complete his "prison look."

We then headed over to see the reptiles:

I've never seen a snake droop so much and yet be so balanced.


This little guy was just begging me for a picture, so of course I had to oblige.


This area had me confused at 1st. I initially though this entire space was for the tiny little lizard you can barely see in the middle. I thought, "What's going on? What am I missing?" Until I looked to the left...


Oh!!! Now all I have to say is, watch out little lizard!

Then we headed to the arctic section:

We saw some cute penguins.


Here is a polar bear.


And here is Matt posing with a polar bear. Doesn't he look friendly?

Next we saw birds:

This bird was very cooperative in getting its photo taken - thank you Mr. or Mrs. Bird.


I thought this was ironic. They put the storks in front of the animal mating center!


At this point, Matt was starting to get tired so I had him pose with a water buffalo.


But I wanted to make sure Matt wasn't too tired, otherwise Matt's onlooker above may have gotten confused! (Can you tell I was getting silly with the camera at this point!?)

Finally we saw some wild cats:

This was a rare snow cat - beautiful creature.


And this was their other wild cat - ha, ha, get it? CAT? I'm so funny!

OK, enough of the tour!!!

For Valentine's Day, Matt got me beautiful purple tulips, a sweet card and took me to a great dinner. We had a wonderful day!