Focht Family Blog

On New Year’s Eve we decided we would go to the arch and maybe one other place. We went out and ran some errands. We got mom some propane and went to the post office. Then Nathan went to meet with a customer that is in St Louis, D’Italia. While Nathan was in his meeting I called around and found out that the zoo closed at 3:00 but the arch was open until 6:00, so when his meeting was over we headed to the zoo. It is listed under my reciprocity list but it is free all year to anyone. A lot of the animals were in and towards the end of our visit more were taken in so that their areas could be cleaned for closing.

Here is the Sun Bear. I was surprised that when I got home and looked at the picture that the bear looks like it has blue eyes…

They had a lot of large cats but most of them are in cages and I hate having to look at pictures with bars in front of them. The lions were in a pit so that I could zoom in on them without having to have bars in the picture. Here is the lioness and the lion…

The lion was watching a man that was walking by us. It was the handler and it was dinner time. On our way to some of the indoor animals, the kids found a statue of some kind of bull. I took a picture of them but Josh refused to believe that he was in the picture so I had to take another picture of him by himself…

Indoors we found birds, monkeys, and snakes. Here is a picture of the kids by the lemurs. The lemurs were all curled up together by the window…

One of the last animals we saw on our way out of the zoo was the camel. He was being called in but he waited for a couple of pictures before listening…