Chase Goes to the Miami Metro Zoo

There is not much you can do with a little baby so we try to find things that involve us walking him around in his stroller and getting him out and about. I had googled things online as to what we could do this weekend. This led us to the Miami Metro Zoo. I did not know this but the Miami Metro Zoo is one of the best Zoo's, per the review I read, in the country and it totally did live up to my expectations. It's HUGE! We didn't even get to see everything and we were there from 3 pm until they closed at 5 pm. When we first got there it was a little hot and I was concerned about Chase being overheated but the weather actually got really nice the longer we were there and he seemed to be content. We walked around and tried to show him the animals but he was really more in awe of the plants (I think this is because the plants were closer than the animals so he never looked past them). The animals however are so freaking close~ They are maybe 20 meters away and the only thing seperating you from the animals is a ditch that is dug in front of them so they cannot get to you. There were several times that I was a little worried because some animals, especially the lions, looked malnutritioned and were eyeing us like we were dinner! Even the squirrels running around were hungry. There was one point where we sat down at a picnic table in the shade next to a tree so I could feed Chase. There was a squirrel next to us chowing down on a french fry. Well, when he was done with his fry, he decided to jump on our table and start making his way towards Chase and me. I, being the scaredy cat that I am, jumped up (luckily Chase was being fed in his stroller lol). So Cory shoo-ed the squirrel off with his water bottle and the next thing I know the squirrel called in reinforcements. More squirrels were coming down the trees. The same squirrel jumped back on the table and this time does not look scared of even Cory but he shoo-ed him off again after several tries. THEN the squirrel climbed up a tree next to Cory's head and proceeds to pee down the tree (luckily he missed Cory but it was a close call and I was cracking up). I don't know what or who pissed off this squirrel but once we were done feeding Chase, I wanted nothing more than to be far away from this angry little rodent. Anyways, we had fun and enjoyed doing something special with Chase during his first Memorial Day Weekend!!