Frankfurt Zoo

So, last weekend, the lovely Josi came to visit Claudia and me in Mainz, and on Saturday when Claudia had to go to one of her classes in Germersheim (Haahaa...) Josi and I went the other direction to Frankfurt and spent a lovely morning and early afternoon at the zoo, and then found a French Bakery for lunch!

I wouldn't call myself a zoo-connoisseur, but I have been to my fair share of them (Pittsburgh, Oakland, San Diego) and so has Josi. The zoo in Frankfurt didn't look like much on the outside, but it had lots of really neat exhibits inside buildings. The coolest thing that we found right at the beginning was the "Night House" , or a building where on the inside, they kept it completely dark except for lighted plaques on the walls which told what animals were inside the exhibits. The building had an amazing collection of nocturnal animals that you would normally not be able to see in a zoo. Certain parts of the building had big clocks that told you what time it supposedly was for the animals that were in there -- it was really neat!

But I actually skipped the first thing we saw -- we were rounding a corner and trying to find out exactly which direction to go when in front of us, in the middle of the lovely fall foliage and in front of the Frankfurt skyline, there was a lion! He did some fantastic posing for us and then went back into the building (probably to sleep), but it was a great start to our day!

We also saw some amazing desert lizards, an impatient rhino, a massive hedgehog, adorable miniature monkeys, an entire otter family, and some very calm camels a the end of our visit. Pictures will follow!