Happy Birthday, Ben!

Today we went to the Cougar Mountain Zoological Park to help celebrate Ben's birthday.

Watching the parrots perform for us. This was the parrot version of peek-a-boo.

This is the kookabura. What alot of people mistake for monkey noise, it is really just this bird!

Laughing at the kookabura

Doing the test to see if we were lemurs

These are lemurs. We passed the test, we are not lemurs

Lon watching the group leader

My camera was a bit too slow. He was not supposed to be up there.

King of the rock! Yes, these rocks were clearly posted do not climb on. Yet, no one asked us to get off these.

East African Cranes. They are different from the ones we saw earlier, West African Cranes.

The Emus are on the move. We tossed apple bits at them and they wanted more

One of the white Bengal Tigers. This is Vetez.  He is only a year and half old.  Still little.

Pretty Tiger. Yes, I felt pretty good about having two sets of bars between us

Lon and Ty find Santa's sleigh. It is near the Reindeer enclosure

The other white Bengal Tiger, Almos, thought he would come and take a look at us.  Beautiful creature

Feeding the Reindeer apple bits.

Then it was time to go into the birthday room and feed the children! Christine had a wonderful selection for all of us. Make your own sandwiches, watermelon, grapes, pretzels and cheesey poofs. Lon thought the juice drinks in animal shaped containers very cool. And of course, he picked the red lion.

Getting ready to blow out the candles!

Eating great cake! Chocolate with chocolate frosting.
Thanks so much for a wonderful day. We wish Ben many more wonderful birthdays to come.
Thank you for inviting us