Assiniboine Park Zoo January 2016

What to do on the last day of winter break?  Hit the Zoo of course!

I think the last time we went to the Zoo might have been during winter break the year before, so it seemed fitting.

The polar bears surprisingly weren't terribly active while we were there, but we got a chance to see plenty of other animals.

I think this is probably my favourite series of shots from that day:

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Da Bears

I love the Zoo, but I generally confine my visits to cooler months because otherwise there are too many bugs - and I don’t do bugs.  Especially flying, stinging bugs.

Seeing as how it’s now late August and this is a particularly bad year for flying, stinging bugs - now seems like the perfect time to post some photos from December!

These bears must have taken a page from the etiquette book my siblings and I subscribed to as children…

I DIDN’T TOUCH HER, I SWEAR!  I WAS JUST HELPING HER UP!

MUUUUUUUUUUUM, HE’S TRYING TO KILL ME!!!!!

Oh… you and your siblings didn’t behave that way?  Well… moving along…

Muuuuuummmmm, she’s pretending to be dead again…

Ok, that’s all, I swear.  

Cougars and Foxes and Polar Bears… OH MY!

I’ve been waiting about 3 years for Journey To Churchill at the Assiniboine Park Zoo to open!  We went for the first time today (To Journey to Churchill, not to the Zoo) and it was soooo worth the wait!

If your jaw dropped when you saw the new admissions prices (I’ll admit it; mine did), go on a Tuesday.  Everyone (over the age of 3) gets in for $10!

I can’t even tell you how amazing it was to see the bears swimming around and wandering in a more natural setting, instead of being confined to the pathetic enclosures they were in before.  The muskoxen, wolves, caribou and seals were awesome too, but I’m all about the polar bears.

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