Sharp's Travels

Today we took the bus from our park and headed for the Metro Station to hop aboard the train that would take us to the National Zoo in Washington DC.
We managed the metro quite well. We had to switch from the green line train to the red line train and arrived at the zoo around 11:30am. This zoo is one of the world’s leading research zoos. They are working to save animals and build healthy populations in the wild.
The direction we headed for first was the giant panda habitat. We saw one outside playing with an orange crate and then inside we got an up close look at one sleeping on the rocks and another sitting down with his legs stretched out in front of him eating a carrot. When he was done he just fell asleep there. They are a neat looking animal.
We loved the gorilla habitat. They just had a new baby girl born there and the Mom was holding it and lugging it around. The little one even put her hand up on the window and all the little kids wanted to touch the window by her hand. It was so cute.
We saw the bear, cheetah, elephants, leopard, lions, meerkats, monkeys, sea lion, tiger, turtles, zebra and much, much more.
The zoo is on a hill and we walked downhill to all the exhibits and were lead to believe that there was an entrance at the bottom of the hill. WRONG! We had to climb back up the hill to get out. I had to stop a couple of times to rest. Thank goodness for those benches on the sides of the walkway.
Back out on the street we headed for the Metro train. It took us 1 hr and 10 minutes to return to the park.
There are 25 other Excel campers here in the park and we stopped to talk with them a bit before heading for our unit.
We call this a GREAT DAY!
Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: National Zoo