Okay, not the REAL Tetons, but the new Teton Trek exhibit at the Memphis Zoo. I don't take my camera EVERY time to we go to the zoo anymore, because we go a lot, but we've been waiting and waiting for the new Yellowstone-themed exhibit since we moved back to the city. It opened this weekend. Only members can see it this week, and the peons can see it starting next weekend. We went with our friends Heather and Steve and their daughter Laney, enjoyed absolutely perfect weather, grizzly cubs swimming and a seal show. Eventually, there will be more animals in the TT area--for now, three bear cubs and 5 gray wolves, as well as some heron-type birds. There's a fountain in front, designed to appear like the geyser Old Faithful. I already foresee very wet children running happily through it during the hot Memphis summers! There's a huge log lodge, and a waterfall in the bear exhibit that visitors can walk over to peer down at the cubbies. Lovely. We're now looking forward to the Chickasaw Bluffs (a raised wooden boardwalk through 17 acres of old growth forest in Overton Park, where the zoo is located) and Zambezi River (for hippos) in the next couple of years. Bring it on, Memphis Zoo!
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