Last Saturday, we went to the Indianapolis Zoo. We have been wanting to take Eyla, since she can name/recognize many animals, but hasn't seen the zoo-type kind in real life. It was a blazing hot day (as our red cheeks can attest), but we went first thing in the morning when it opened, and finished by soon after noon, hoping to avoid the hottest part of the day.
Eyla definitely enjoyed it, although with the weather so hot and humid, many of the animals were pretty low-key (laying in the shade, standing around like even walking was too much effort, hiding in their cages like the bear, who we could see only from his nose to his eyes because that was all that was sticking out of the cave where he has found some shade!) So, we didn't get a lot of great pictures of the animals, but hopefully enough here to remind us of the trip and document Eyla's first experiences with these animals!
This picture is a little blurry, but it cracks me up because is shows her response when we walked into the large room with a very large pool of sharks...she started yelling "oooohhhh", like she was so impressed and excited! 
Eating a little snack while we watched ducks and flamingoes (in the very back).
Eyla definitely enjoyed it, although with the weather so hot and humid, many of the animals were pretty low-key (laying in the shade, standing around like even walking was too much effort, hiding in their cages like the bear, who we could see only from his nose to his eyes because that was all that was sticking out of the cave where he has found some shade!) So, we didn't get a lot of great pictures of the animals, but hopefully enough here to remind us of the trip and document Eyla's first experiences with these animals!
This picture is a little blurry, but it cracks me up because is shows her response when we walked into the large room with a very large pool of sharks...she started yelling "oooohhhh", like she was so impressed and excited! 
Eating a little snack while we watched ducks and flamingoes (in the very back).
Checking out monkeys from Dada's shoulders.
There was a splash park in the zoo, which was a welcome break to cool off a little bit (for Eyla mostly, although Jas and I got our feet wet!) She was a little wary, but eventually got pretty soaked.
Talking to Aunt Rochelle a.k.a. Aunt Shell
Eyla and cousin Luke cheesin' it up for the camera.
