the entrance to the park during the day. it was a gorgeous day; warm and bright.

a jungle gym!

let's see.. it was December, so these must have been reindeer!

tapirs?

ok, now this made the trip to the zoo totally worth it. they brought out this cheetah, and he was about 5 feet away. then they brought in this dog, and told us that they were best friends, and they proceeded to start playing together.

I took many pictures of the cheetah. he was a complete ham, very playful, and so close! and the fact that he had a black lab as his best friend was too cute!