Duisburg Zoo

On Saturday I decided I HAD to go someplace, I've been busy every weekend and I wanted to go see something new.  I told Amber we should go to Gelsenkirchen zoo, which I'd been to before, but she thought it was too far away.  Soooooo, we settled on Duisburg about an hour away.  It only cost about 15 Euro for their whole family!!!  Of course, it was that much just for me, so take your whole family:)  They had my favorites, otters, but it turns out they kind of look like rats when there's a bunch of them.  Also, they sound like little birds and I'll try to add a video at the end of this too.   Here's the otters:

   

I even convinced Chuck, Amber and the kids to pose for me in the Chinese garden!

Here's my artistic shot of the elephant, what a great enclosure they had for them.  We felt so close we could almost touch them!  The same could be said with the giraffes, you could even see them outside of the zoo.  What a great time together and we are definitely looking for more zoos so pass your ideas along!!
            

The dolphin show was amazing and they are definitely not as scared of being sued as and American zoo would be.  They put a little kid in a boat and the dolphins zoomed him around the pool extremely fast.  He bumped into the sides and almost fell into the water!!  I couldn't believe it.  Then he got to hold his hand out and the dolphin came up out of the water and took a fish out of his hand.  Amazing!  In the monkey house they had a sloth that could wander the whole room on a series of ropes and trees, but the cute thing was there were mice everywhere.  I got this picture of one checking out the sloth's food.  The final photo is an iguana that smiled for me.  I took his picture first with a flash and it turned out grainy, but the flash got his attention and he turned his head so it looked like he was posing!

              

Wow!