The weather wasn't exactly perfect for the zoo but we ventured out anyway because we had free passes for the zoo and the dinosaurs alive exhibit that was leaving at the end of the month. It was sunny with a high of 48, so not too cold, but not exactly warm. That's October in Chicago for you. Warm is just a memory at this point...
We thought the huge pumpkin was pretty cool. It weighed 1,311 pounds. Crazy!
None of us are really "into" dinosaurs, but it was pretty cool to walk through and see how big they really were. Apparently they've changed some of the names of the dinosaurs since we learned about them years ago. The one behind them we used to call a stegosaurus but it has some weird new name now. Whatever...
I thought these were brontosaurus but not anymore! This was the mom with her baby so this is me with my babies. I thought it was pretty funny that one of the dinosaurs lay their eggs while they are walking and that's that. They don't make a nest and sit on them, care for them when they are born, or anything.
Thankfully the T-Rex hasn't changed it's name. It was huge!
This was a cute little Alaskan Brown Bear resting in the sun. The brown bear next to it was swimming in the pool. I guess those Alaskan bears think the 40s is great swimming weather. There's a video of the bear at the bottom of the post.
Of course we had to visit our cousins in the primate exhibit!
Cade's uncle.
We watched these for about 20 minutes. They were so active and entertaining playing with paper, eating and stealing hay from each other and just climbing around.
On our way out of the zoo we saw a random peacock walking around. Never seen one walking around before. Not sure if it escaped or what but it seemed scared of us and walked really fast when we came around so I'm thinking it escaped. We didn't stay at the zoo very long, but we had a good time.
The weather wasn't exactly perfect for the zoo but we ventured out anyway because we had free passes for the zoo and the dinosaurs alive exhibit that was leaving at the end of the month. It was sunny with a high of 48, so not too cold, but not exactly warm. That's October in Chicago for you. Warm is just a memory at this point... 
We thought the huge pumpkin was pretty cool. It weighed 1,311 pounds. Crazy! 
None of us are really "into" dinosaurs, but it was pretty cool to walk through and see how big they really were. Apparently they've changed some of the names of the dinosaurs since we learned about them years ago. The one behind them we used to call a stegosaurus but it has some weird new name now. Whatever... 
I thought these were brontosaurus but not anymore! This was the mom with her baby so this is me with my babies. I thought it was pretty funny that one of the dinosaurs lay their eggs while they are walking and that's that. They don't make a nest and sit on them, care for them when they are born, or anything. 
Thankfully the T-Rex hasn't changed it's name. It was huge! 
This was a cute little Alaskan Brown Bear resting in the sun. The brown bear next to it was swimming in the pool. I guess those Alaskan bears think the 40s is great swimming weather. There's a video of the bear at the bottom of the post. 
Of course we had to visit our cousins in the primate exhibit! 
Cade's uncle. 
We watched these for about 20 minutes. They were so active and entertaining playing with paper, eating and stealing hay from each other and just climbing around. 
On our way out of the zoo we saw a random peacock walking around. Never seen one walking around before. Not sure if it escaped or what but it seemed scared of us and walked really fast when we came around so I'm thinking it escaped. We didn't stay at the zoo very long, but we had a good time.
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Now imagine one of those peacocks living in your backyard like we have in WI, it is crazy! Love the pumpkin!!
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