At the zoo!

This past week, Jake, Kyler, and Zoey had Spring Break. Woo hoo! We wanted to go and do something, but daddy only has about two weeks left of school and was concerned about missing days. So we tabled other plans and instead went to visit Aunt Audrey and Nathan (Uncle David was out on a trip again.) Luckily for me, we weren't on a time schedule, as I can't ever seem to remember the time change when we go to Georgia. (For instance, Russ and I were going to a boating safety class last Sat. We planned it out, but Fort Benning was bigger than we anticipated and were about 15 minutes late. We went in to check in for the class, only to find out it had been cancelled. Aghhh! We walked out to the car and looked at our phones, only to find out that we were an HOUR and 15 minutes LATE! Dang it! One day I will figure it out...I hope.)

We got to Audrey's house (without a potty break!) and Aunt Audrey and Nate were just about ready to go. We piled in the (now paid for) Expedition. Kyler, Nate, and Zoey in the middle and Jake in the back. The kids had such a fun time driving to the zoo. Kyler, Jake, and Zoey were all vying for Nates attention. They tried to do some knock, knock jokes with Nate, but he didn't understand what they were doing at first. Once he figured it out, he replied, "Big Surprise!" He is so cute! It was a noisy ride there.

The first thing we saw at the zoo was the elephants. They are huge! And much dirtier than I thought they would be. We were at the big cat area and had great views of the tiger out sunning himself. But, what were my kids more interested in? Wait for it, wait for it...

The men cleaning out the enclosure next to the tiger. No animal in there...just men cleaning up. Uhhh, kids????

We skipped the reptile house, but fortunatly for us, the Komodo Dragon wasn't in there that day. We had a great view of him. Jake and Kyler were facinated to look at him because he really is a DRAGON! He can move fast if he needs to, but there was no need today. Mom somehow got a lucky shot of the Dragon with his tounge out!

At the gorilla enclosure, there were so many gorillas to look at! Outside we found the Silver Backs, and we even heard on pound on its chest! That was AWESOME!!

I just love Jake's smile....

And my favorite picture of the day...

The baby was so cute! He was playing with us and be-bopping around, until his mom had enough and she put him on her back and carried him away. Hmmm...seems familiar somehow. LOL!

And Zoey-bird.Kyler-bird didn't want to be photographed, but I captured an image of his head at least!

It was a really fun day. After the zoo we went back to Audrey's house and played a game of Pirates. Arghhhh! The last round Jake, Kyler, and I were working together to fight a pirate, but in the end, none of us were able to best the pirate.

We had a really fun day with Nate and Audrey. I am so glad we are living much, much closer and get to visit more frequently. Thanks Audrey and Nate!