Colorado Trip - The End!

This is the last post from my trip to Colorado. I had enough pictures from individual days/places that I made individual posts for each one, but I did have a few extra pictures from here and there during the vacation that didn't fit into the rest of the pictures, so I decided to do an extra post, just for those few stray pictures.

My Aunt Ruth and Uncle Nathan's dog, Logan. :)

Believe it or not, this is actually a Chinese restaurant, the Pearl Dragon. You would never know it from the outside. They had really good food though.

A hummingbird outside on Aunt Ruth's feeder. :)

Don't ask me where this was taken, I don't remember. :)

I had a few pictures from the zoo that I must have missed, so I threw them into this post.

Sadly, the only moose we saw on our whole trip, was one in the zoo.

Guess what. Peacock butt. I am so sorry. I will go and punish myself right now for this heinous atrocity of a joke.

My joke was so bad it made this poor orangutan sad.

This was the storm coming in as we left the zoo.

On one of the days we all drove around the towns near where Aunt Ruth and Uncle Nathan live, particularly Estes Park. These next few pictures were from that day.

And that's it! Colorado is one of my favorite places in the entire world, and I really hope to get back there soon! Now to work on the next batch of pictures I'm behind on!

Colorado Trip - Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - Part 2

After the harrowing experience just getting to the zoo, (Which you can read about HERE) we had an awesome time. This zoo is so cool. The whole thing is built into the side of a mountain, so as you walk through the zoo, you're walking up the mountain and the view just keeps getting better. This was the first view after we got to an overlook.

As I said in the last post, the main draw of the zoo, besides the views, is the fact that you can pet the giraffes. They have one of the biggest giraffe populations in the US. They also have an indoor area, and in there they were training young giraffe.

They also have okapis. :)

Like I said in my first post, these things are everywhere. :)

View #2.

Part of the giraffe exhibit as seen from above.

This reminded me of Lost. :)

View #3.

The giraffes weren't the only things you could pet. They also had some wallabies out and about.

We all had to take turns getting our pictures taken petting them. :)

These two ladies even had a baby out for visitors to pet! :)

It was adorable!

The colors aren't the greatest in these pictures, the lighting was strange in many places in the reptile house. It was very cool looking, but it didn't make for very good pictures. This room was the coolest. They had snakes in these tanks with all different colors of glass rocks, along with pieces of art. It was so unique. I wish more of my pictures had turned out.

Another visitor to the zoo walked up to this little guy and handed him a piece of popcorn. He took it!

If you look closely, you can see a mountain lion, which Sasha is photographing.

That's all my pictures from the zoo. If you still want more, I have a few more of my best pictures on my photography blog, which you can find HERE. I still have more pictures to come from the rest of the trip, so stay tuned for those!

To the Zoo With Matthew: Part 3

Part 1 HERE.
Part 2 HERE.

For a minute I thought that the flamingos had suddenly learned how to perch in trees. I’ve never seen that before, but it could be possible, I don’t know… :p
Anyway, upon looking closer, I could see that they were actually Scarlet Ibises, Not flamingos.


Here are the flamingos. Much bigger than an Ibis.



There was a peacock on the wall next to the outdoor gorilla exhibit. I could tell he was getting ready to jump so I took a bunch of pictures.

I wish I would have gotten a better picture of him in flight, but it was still cool that I got one at all! :)

One of the places we went that I’d never been to before was the lemur islands. They have one exhibit where you are in the exhibit with the lemurs. You are supposed to stay at least five feet away from them though.

These things are LOUD!

This was my attempt to get some pictures of the fruit bats. It is so hard to get good pictures of them. There is so little light in their exhibit. I tried using the night setting and my monopod to steady the camera, but I only ended up with a couple usable pictures.

One of the indoor lemurs was warming itself.

This is one place I have never seen any of the peacocks before, up a tree.

These vultures were outside by the prairie dogs. I am not sure if they belong to the zoo, or perhaps one of the prairie dogs… Um… Tunneled his way to heaven… :p I didn’t see an ankle tag on either one like most of the zoo birds wear, but they didn’t seem afraid of me either, so I don’t know.

This was funny to watch. :)


Part 4 Coming soon!