Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Zoo Trip (from last year)

Get ready for some major blog updating.  I can’t believe I missed this one, though.  Back in July of last year I took the kids to the zoo one day when plans fell through to go to the lake.  We hadn’t been in a while and I had yet to see the new Rocky Shores area.  It was a ton of fun and we realized if we bought a year pass we would only have to go there times to pay for itself.  So, we will be seeing  a lot of the zoo this year. 

These kids love to ‘monkey’ around.

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Always a favorite picture spot…the huge elephant sculpture that spits water at you through its trunk.

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Piper is such a poser for the camera. 

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Téa loved the elephants and could have stayed all day watching them.

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Calista and I could have watched Rizzo, the polar bear for hours.

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Téa did a huge report on otters at the end of fourth grade so she was fascinated with watching the river otters.  I have some great memories watching the otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium when I was little.  They’re so cute.  We found the little sculpture of the otter so Téa could have her picture taken.

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The kids are always looking for a cool pose for pictures.  Very creative.

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I laughed so hard when Piper tried to pose with the bears too. 

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And, lastly, a random picture of the girls just a few days after the zoo.  We went to Thanksgiving Point Farm Country and they got to brush the miniature horses there. 

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Calista was in heaven and didn’t want to leave.  She wants to be a horse trainer when she grows up.  We’re looking into horse back riding lessons for her this summer.  I hope she realizes she won’t ever be able to have one as a pet.  I sure don’t want to be the one to crush her dreams, though.

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