Our last day in Philly we went to the zoo (thank you again to Grandma Cathy & Grandpa).  Did you know the Philadelphia Zoo is known as America’s First Zoo?  It’s been around since 1859 and back then it was known as the Zoological Society of Philadelphia.  There, now you’ve learned something new today.

Here we are just inside the entrance of the zoo.

One of the first animals we visited were the gorillas.  We were able to get close to the glass and Adam loved it.  I had to move back a couple of steps because he was so excited he was flapping his arms and trying to hit the glass.  I really did not want to be responsible for an angry gorilla.  If you look closely you can see our little monkey’s reflection in the glass.

We did end up finding a gorilla that Adam could beat up as much as he wanted.

By far though, this was the cutest gorilla in the zoo.

The parts of that gorilla that were not made of Adam were made of legos.  The zoo was featuring a really cool exhibit called “Creatures of Habitat: A Gazillion-Piece Animal Adventure”.  It took about 95,000 legos to build this Polar Bear.

We really liked the penguins (surprise).

And these turtles were fun too.

It really was amazing to see all these animals made out of legos.  And of course the real animals were great too.  I think the little dude’s favorite were the giraffes.  He really did not know what to think of them.  He kept looking at me and then back at the giraffes, almost as if to say, “Are these things for real Mama?”.

It was a really nice visit, despite Adam’s run in with a family of black bears.

We weren’t too worried about his safety.  Captain Adorable can handle himself.

Ha ha bear, got yer nose!