Our Trip to the Zoo

This week was Spring Break. One of the things we did was go to the zoo. It's one of our favorite family activities. The weather was beautiful! Lots of other people had a the same idea, but we had our game plan in place. We arrived first thing when they opened, and since we are Zoo Members :) we bypassed the line to buy tickets and walked right up to the the "Members Only" window. Then we hiked (and it's a HIKE) to the back of the zoo. The area we like the best is the Rainforest. It is very warm and humid in that building (since it's supposed to mimic the rainforest and all) so visiting when it's still cool outside is smart. We have never seen a sloth up close until this day! The boys thought is was especially neat because Diego, The Animal Rescuer, helps a sloth on his cartoon show.


The sea lions were taking a nap and the penguins didn't feel like swimming, so we headed over to the Big Cat displays. Our zoo has two new snow leopards and a keeper was showing this skin (I guess it belonged to the 'old' snow leopard! Anyway, AJ was willing to touch it after being reassured that it was not alive and wouldn't hurt him. JJ wanted nothing to do with it. He actually said "Let's get out of here!"


By then the zoo was getting pretty crowded. I let the boys play in the zoo park for a while before we rode the train and called it a day. Here they are pretending to be pirates. JJ would then try to climb the ladder you see behind him and somehow end up on the ground with mulch in his teeth. Time to "get out of here"!

We had a great time. AJ walked the entire morning - he was a trooper! As we were leaving, the line to purchase tickets was all the way out to the parking lot. There was also a line of cars waiting just to get into the parking lot! Crazy! It pays to plan ahead. I'm sure someone was really happy to get our parking spot!