My cousin Rose and her husband Will invited us and another couple (friends of theirs) to join them at the zoo for the afternoon on Saturday. We gladly joined them and met them there mid afternoon when most people, who had been there all day, were leaving. Great strategy don't you think?! We took in an elephant show (yes, elephants can dance!). Then we got up close with the lions and even heard some primal growls! Next we took a nice stroll and saw various obscure animals (the only one whose name comes to mind was the warthog, oh!, and the black-eared fox....who consequently was being chased by the vicious warthogs, which, by the way, warthogs are not pretty). At the end of the stroll came the flamingos, then back up the trail and past warthogs again. On our way out of the zoo we saw the gorillas who were being quite rambunctious as they headed into their cages for the night.
It was a short time at the zoo, but that's the beauty of having a membership, we don't feel as though we have to stay all day and see every exhibit! The kids had a great time too. Isabel does really well in the backpack, she is up higher and can see more things. I'm not sure how much longer we can use it though, she was trying to climb out, and almost succeeded! I took my camera this time and the batteries had enough juice to enable me to take a few shots. I need more space on the flashcard though, bummer! The few pics I got ended up being pretty good. Keepers for sure.
We ended the day at our place with pizza and yummy angel food cake (laborious compliments from Rose and Will!). Then the evening closed with a tired, but somewhat strategic, game of Settlers of Catan (which Ryan and I won, go home team!).
Nice day. Great company. A must repeat!
**Thanks Rose for the great idea! We all had a very nice time, thank you!
Sunday, February 25
Zoo-rific Time
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How fun to go to the zoo with friends. That's great, being able to go and spend as long or as little time as you want! Sounds like the afternoon is a good time to see a little zoo action.
ps - we have played Settlers but we are losers. bummer.
Hi Deanne,
Just checking in on what's new with you. Sounds like you had a good time...lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Erin
How fun! Looks like the kids had a great time....(great pics D!) And yes, warthogs are ugly suckers ain't they...hahaha :)
Sounds idyllic...I'm the weest bit jealous. No zoo nearby here. =(
I'm jealous that it was nice enough to go to the zoo. We got rain, then freezing rain, then 6 inches of snow this weekend. Yuck! Glad you had a good time and got a few good pics. Thanks for sharing!
P.S. Any chance I could talk you into turning the word verification thing off when I (and others) leave you comments?
Fun zoo day! You look so cute!
Hey there! Sounds like fun. I have an idea for you regarding your memory card. We use Snapfish.com, and have only bought pics a couple of times from them, but they have a program that everytime you connect your camera to the computer it gives you the choice to automatically download all the pics to your "My Pictures" harddrive and to Snapfish, then it deletes all the chosen pics from your camera for you! It's heavenly, and I'm still in control of what goes where, and my memory card is emptied weekly! May not be for everyone. Just thought I'd share. Tell me when you get the muffins!
We went to the zoo yesterday and had a good time. Our animals included the following: chickens, goats, bunnies, peacocks, wolves, a tiger, sika deer, red pandas, crows, porcupines, and big horn sheep. that's Zoo Montana! Settler of Catan - great game! Try: Cities & Knights of Catan - whole new game!
I wish we had a zoo nearby. Sounds like so much fun!!! Glad you had a great time.
sounds like a great day! I have never played the game, but have heard it's fun.
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