Everyone Needs a Day Like This

I'm hoping to get a few things posted on here today! My "to-do" list is already filling up starting with a busy, sports-filled morning so we'll see ;) But! I'm up early since a certain wriggly someone crawled in our bed many times last night! I finally gave up trying to get her into her own bed and let her have mine ;) She's not a good bed-sharer!

Anyway...we'll start with yesterday. We went to the zoo with friends! We frequent our fantastic zoo often but tend to avoid it a bit in the summer. Not only is it way too hot to wander around to our heart's content but also it's crowded. Crowded means sharing and not spending time observing. You have to move to let the next group take a peek. We don't mind sharing so much but we really prefer taking our time and not being rushed. And that's what we did yesterday! We lingered where they wanted to linger and moved on when they were ready.

We were running a bit late so we met up with everyone at Asia. The monkeys were being quite entertaining, much to everyone's delight!

Of course we had to spend a few minutes here:

Still completely loving the tigers ;)

After that we headed to the polar bears. Unfortunately, they were not being as engaging as they were when we saw them back in the summer but the exhibit as a whole is so much fun! Since it wasn't horribly crowded, we finally got around to seeing the rest and spent quite a bit of time looking around.

Erin and Nicholas in the underwater viewing. No polar bears to be found :(  Lots of playing though!

Little cuties trapped under the ice!

Kyle and Megan. How many big brothers does this girl need? She's stealing them from other little girls now!

Much to Brandon's delight, we headed to the reptile house from here. He cannot visit the zoo without peeking in on the yucky snakes! See evidence below:

Looks like Zack has the same fasination!

We headed to Australia after that. A couple of little cuties were starting to get tired! We'd pretty much walked from one end of the zoo to the other!

Thanks for bringing that wonderful wagon Margot! What a great idea!

We sat for quite a while again watching the monkeys (in the exhibit and out ;)) and enjoying the company of our friends while they all snacked. how much food does it take to get eleven kids through the zoo?? ALOT!

We had a great view while we rested:

Nick took this one:

He was so excited to use the zoom! I was completely nervous that he might drop my camera. I would have cried for sure.

The whole gang minus adults:

We had so much fun! Thank you Angie and Margot for going with us! Jenny and Angi, you guys were missed. I hope your kids get better soon! There's still plenty of time to get to the zoo again before the cold weather!