The 4th of July!

The weather here has been kind of cool and cloudy. So instead of heading to the pool like we had planned, we went to the Phillps Park Zoo!  Grandma and Grandpa came with us and Amy too. They had never been here.

 

It's a tiny zoo but it is cute and it's free.  They have eagles.

 

And sea otters.

 

And turkeys.

 

And lots of pretty flowers.

They have a neat reptile house with this huge snake in it.

 



 

And two alligators. 

 

And lots of turtles.

 

We walked to the park and played around a little bit.

We sat on the cannons.

Grandpa even got in on the playground fun!

 



 

We found a zipline too!

Then we went in the mastodon museum and looked at the fossils and bones.

 

And we checked out the gardens.

 

After that, we went to the Ogle house to have some more 4th fun!  We set off smoke bombs.

 

And did lots of Pop-It's!

 

Gracie drew this on the driveway!

 

We made S'mores and Colton had fun eating marshmallows. 

 

Then while the neighborhood set off lots of fireworks, we had fun doing all kinds of sparklers. 

 

God Bless America!