Riverbanks Zoo

The kids and I escaped for the day to Columbia and visited the Riverbanks Zoo that just reopened last week!  It was a cooler, drizzly morning but none of us minded!  They are doing timed entry for now and we had to pre-purchase our tickets which kept the crowds way down!  A couple of the exhibits were not open - namely the gorilla enclosure(but we could see a family of four through the door and out the other side) and feeding the birds(this was disappointing to the kids as they were looking forward to this, but I hate birds and think they are stinky, so I was okay with it!).  We loved feeding the giraffes(it was set up so only one group was allowed on the platform at a time, so we did have to wait, but not too long and it was nice to have the giraffes all to ourselves when it was our turn!), going through the barn, petting the goats in the goat exhibit as they tried to eat all of our clothes, watching the sea lions and seals play and then going out to the car for lunch.  When we came back in, the kids got much anticipated Dip n Dops, we saw all of the big cats(the lions were pretty active!), laughed at the pink baboon butts and the howler monkeys were very playful swinging and climbing through their exhibit and the bears were sleeping!  We saw the penguins and it must be mating season for the flamingos because they were so loud and fighting with each other with their feathers all fluffed!  It was a much-needed road trip and we are glad things are opening up so that we can do another adventure soon!

he was eating C's shorts!

Now he's eating S's shoelace!

There was another baby in there too, but the door is in the way!
They were just hanging out and probably enjoying time without
all of the people being in there messing with them!