So we piled in the car, drove 2.5 miles to the main bus depot, and caught a bus that runs to downtown Portland. Then we got off the bus, walked two blocks, and got on the light-rail train headed west. The trains are only about 4 cards long, and the tracks run ON the roads in downtown Portland, making frequent short stops. Then it heads underground, picks up speed, and stops at a very nice station located 400 feet BELOW the zoo (I think the ground went up because the train didn't seem to be going downhill). After a high-speed elevator ride to the surface, we were 100 feet from the zoo entrance.
We had to wait in line about an hour too see the baby elephant, but the wait seemed to go pretty quickly. Then we walked around and looked at lots of other animals, including, but not limited to, bears, monkeys, hippo's, giraffes, gazelles, birds, jaguars, penguins, and sea lions. Just about everything except lions and tigers, who's habitat is undergoing reconstruction. While eating lunch at the cafe it started raining, and it rained lightly on and off the rest of the afternoon, but there were lots of covered areas so we didn't get very wet.
At 2:00 or so we reboarded the train and headed home. Hailey fell asleep on the train and slept until she was being placed back in her car seat. Travis also slept a little on the bus.
It was a very nice zoo. We couldn't get any good pictures of the baby elephant because it was indoors with it's mom and they didn't allow flash photograph; hence our pictures of it didn't turn out well. But here's a link to the zoo's baby elephant page which has photos.
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