Trip to the Zoo

We have a gal in our ward that works at the zoo. She is on our activities committee and always plans a fun program at the zoo for our ward. The kids were so excited. Palmer went to the zoo with his class, but a lot of the animals were gone for the winter.

We had a breakfast and then some of the zoo keepers brought out some animals for the kids to touch.

Some snakes and armadillos. It was cool.

The kids weren't sure what they thought of the snakes. For some reason snakes don't bother me, spiders on the other hand...yuck!

It was interesting taking McKay. He struggled a little bit. It was so hot that it was hard for him to sleep.

As we walked by this little chipmunk had his hand on the window like he was waving. You can see it a little in this picture.

Really all the kids wanted to do was to ride the train and carousel.

We lost our trusty double stroller. I have felt so bad about it. That thing is priceless to us and has been through a lot. We had to use our running stroller for our zoo visit. Josh was pretty ingenious with the carrier and lashed it to the top of the stroller. It was funny, we passed a few people that wanted to know where to get one like it. Little do they know it is at josh-r-us.

The carousel. heaven.

These monkeys were so LOUD! I have never heard monkeys be so silly before.

There was a whole bunch of booths set up by Girl Scouts. It was fun for the kids to do a few different activities at the zoo.

They learned about a lot of animals.

This was the most random activity. They were supposed to pretend they were bears crossing the street while the Girl Scouts hucked cars at them...I said it was random, and they loved it.

The classic lion fountain.

I have never seen a tiger being fed. You can't see it in this picture, but he had a huge leg of something. I wonder where they get that stuff.

Okay so "Nature's Nightmares" really is creepy. This was a whole pack of bats sleeping right above our heads-not in glass or anything. The other cool thing we saw was a pirana.

Learning about birds.

That is how big the foot of a hawk is.

Making masks.

Lincoln was pretty done by the time we did masks. He just wanted a picture.

Hunter was all about the cougar mask.

Palmer made an owl mask, and in true Palmer form wore it for a very long time. He wanted me to take a picture of his eyes going crazy in the mask.

We went to Kneaders after the zoo. Thurl Bailey was also eating there. I wanted to get his picture with the kids, but Josh thought it would be lame to ask him while he was with family.

Kneaders is always a good time. We just watched "Super Size Me" and have been traumatized by fast food. I am glad this is just a bit more healthy.

McKay thoroughly enjoyed chewing on a spoon.