Made it to the zoo Saturday! The St. Louis zoo and it was the hottest most humid day I've ever seen.  The animals just wanted to sleep in the shade and I couldn't blame them. Three hours driving both ways about 5 hours at the zoo and 5 or 6 at Harrah's Casino made for a long day!  I'll try to spread the pics out over 2-3 days.  Tried to keep them as small as possible. If you're sick of zoo animals, well, too bad, I had to suffer to get these and if you don't like them... well, your kids probably will!

Flippin' me the man!
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Giant Anteater
Smart Ape plus Paperbag equals Shade!
Stoned Owl!
Tarantula!
Grizzzzzzzzz...
No Lifeguards on Duty!
Elephant shower! As you can imagine I took a bunch of this elephant...
Get behiind the ears!
Glug Glug!
Ooh, that's Tasty!

 They're doing a lot of remodeling and expansion at the zoo.  The gorilla exhibit was temporarily closed (dang it).  They've erected a neat sculpture on the edge of the zoo called "Animals Always".  It's an awesome sculpture out of rusted iron that looks like paper cutouts of various animals.  Really nice but we flew buy in the car before we knew it was there.  Got a couple pics I'll show later but need to go back to do it justice.
  Now I'm going to try and catch up here. I know I'm too far behind on everyone's posts after two days off.