At the Zoo!

Ahh...the Monday of spring break. Clear skies, good weather, what to do? We headed to the zoo! I was hoping all the other spring breakers would stay away and they did for the most part. It was the perfect day! Here we are in the car on the way there. Presley proudly wore his Cubs hat from Uncle Frog.

We got there and unloaded our stuff and piled into the wagon.

You are looking at him...Mr. G.Q.
We went into the Hammill Family Play Zoo. We have only been in there a couple of times before. The kids love it. With our membership, we get in for free so why not? Gracie pretended to be a bird.

They also have animals out so you can pet them. Gracie petted Hershey, the brown bunny.

They have cool things to look at made by kids like this giraffe so we took a pic.

Then Evie petted a guinea pig.

You can also plant flowers and pretend to be a vet but we opted to some face painting. Gracie wanted to be a zebra cat. I never said I was a good artist.

Evie wanted a butterfly.

And Presley...well, Auntie Amy drew something.

After that, Presley found his calling....he pretended to be a zoo worker cleaning up all the mess.

After that, we headed to the childrens' petting zoo. Here is Bub all comfy in the wagon.

But before we made it there, Evie wanted to be an owl.

We found the goats and brushed them.

And then we spotted a real owl!

And Gracie wanted to walk across the rocks. She almost fell in. Thankfully she didn't. It was a little chilly to walk around with wet feet.

But we did find these polar bears just chilling so Gracie wanted to ride one.

We stopped off at the dolphins next. There were all kinds of them swimming around.

It was fun until we discovered how much more fun it is to hang from the bars.

Dolphins grow pretty big.

We went and saw the sea lions next. There weren't as many around.

Then Presley decided to wear his hat like a thug. Oh boy.

We saw some lions.

We also stopped to ride the merry-go-round not once, but twice! Everyone rode this time too. Presley was bopping to the beat as he first rode a penguin.

Evie rode the panda bear.

Gracie went out of her comfort zone of panda bear and rode the gorilla.

Then we rode again and Presley rode the sea horses.

Evie rode the panda again.

And Gracie rode the giraffe.

We stopped and saw a real kangaroo so we had to stop with this kangaroo and take some pics.

We finally made it see the giraffes.

And the polar bears were up and moving around.

The polar bears were a big hit.

We certainly had fun at the zoo and are looking forward to many more summer days spent there.