Zoo Trip

We had a field trip to the zoo today, it was special in that it was a guided tour. Our guide had been one of the people that feed and take care of the animals for 15 years so she had a lot of good information and stories to tell.
Here's our guide and the boys in their Manning jerseys...my mom likes to torture me...

the kamoda dragon,

we got lucky, the dragon was pretty active today,

the cheetahs came right up to us to pose for pictures,

loads of beautiful flowers,

some I've never seen before,

the peacocks are the descendants of the peacocks Queen Lili'uokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, kept. They roam all over.

This bird is just a visitor to the zoo. We see these everywhere and I have been trying to get pictures of them. This one walked on the bushes right in front of us.

This huge banyan tree is in front of the zoo, it is a maze in and among the the huge roots.