Caroline and I went to the zoo today with our friends Katie, Emmet, Maryn, Jesse and Lars. I LOVE the zoo and I think I was more excited about it than Caroline was. I mean she had fun but we could have seen a goat and a chicken and she would have been just as excited. She was definitley interested in the animals but I think a dog is still her favorite. Weather wise it was a perfect day for the zoo, and it wasn't too crowded. Remind me never to let my kids go on a field trip to the zoo without me, there were all these school kids there and they were OUT OF CONTROL. The monkey's are always my favorite, there was a chimpanze that was right up at the window waving at people, I thought it was so cool and carried Caroline over to see and she freaked out trying to get away from it. Oops. This is neither here nor there, but when I worked at McLean Bible we took our Junior High kids to the zoo one year during summer camp and it was mating season and seriously every animal at that zoo was mating. It was super awkward to try to explain and the kids were definitley fascinated and asking lots of questions that I would have prefered not to answer. I mean the prarie dogs, the monkeys, the peacocks, the hippos the galopagas turtles (that you could hear the turtles through the whole zoo). It's funny now but at the time I was dying. The entire rest of the week kids were imitating noises the turtles were making, I have never heard anything quite like it. I am happy to report that there were no awkward mating moments today.
This video is from the end of the day, 2 hours past naptime, kids were getting sloppy. And I know that the floor of the elephant is not the cleanest place to let your baby play, but honestly this one licks tires and the toilet. My cleanliness standards have gone way way down.
7 comments:
that video was hysterical...wow...and rebekah just went to the zoo a couple weeks ago with her school :-) she was one of those WILD kids!!! you had the PERFECT day for it!
LOVE the pictures and the video. i'm so sad that i missed it! glad you guys had fun.
on a side note... i totally remember that trip to the zoo with the youth group. hysterical! what were we thinking???
we missed you too christine, next time, though as fun as it was I am not in a hurry to do it again!
in reference to your side note, I knew you would appreciate that post :)
yes peyton! the zoo was super fun. let's do it again. I couldn't get over how well behaved the kiddos were. we are very blessed mothers. not only well behaved, SUPER CUTE too!!!
Fun day! Are you sure you didn't spike her drink? So funny. Can't wait to see you soon.
P...hilarious! I'm crying.. that's so funny! My fav. quote "i've never heard anything quite like it" Uh... thanks for that.
more importantly.. your kids are precious! So cute :)
~Stace
Somehow I never read the post only looked at the pics. I wanted to let you know, your not alone, the mating at the zoo happened on a trip I took to the zoo with some friends in college! The monkeys were OUT OF CONTROL!!!
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