What a Zoo!!

Our kids are on spring break this week. Now for all you parents, you know that means I get to hear every morning "What are we doing today, it's spring break?" I decided to head up to Seattle and take them to the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday.

To add to the zoo-like part of the trip - we went with a big group. We had 10 kids and 4 adults with 6 of those kids age 3 or under. We weren't the fastest moving group, and after 6 hrs still hadn't seen everything, but it was a lot of fun.

This is Adam, Ben, and Connor. We like to call them the ABC's. Cute enough they are all almost exactly the same size, with Adam being 3, Ben being 2, and Connor being 1. Not easy to get a picture with all of them looking the same direction.

Josh with a bronze elephant sculpture. We have pictures of our kids every single time we have gone there.

This picture sums up the whole reason I wanted to go to this particular zoo. They have an exhibit with birds that you can try and feed. You can buy a little stick for $1 that has seed on it, and you try to feed the birds. Usually they will come and land on your stick or hand making for a lot of fun. This being spring break and the zoo being particularly full of people, we were told these birds were a little over-fed this week and not wanting to eat. All of them were staying on branches that were within a couple feet of the ceiling.

All the kids were climbing as high as the zoo staff would let them to just TRY to force-feed the birds. You can't tell, but Sarah is actually pretty high in the picture above. This left a LOT of little toddlers pretty bummed we couldn't get them high enough even on our shoulders. They were just walking around the room with their little arms in the air holding their sticks just wishing those birds would come down to 2 ft off the ground, but it just wasn't happening.

This is how it is supposed to work...

All in all, it was a very fun day! There is nothing like seeing little ones seeing animals for the first time. Ben was so thrilled at seeing them for the first time and not just on tv. It is so cute to see their eyes get all big when they realize they are actually seeing a hippo (or an "ippo"), monkeys (also known as "ee ee, aah ahh"), or even a sheep (he can say that one). We were all exhausted by the time we left, and I think Ben was sound asleep before we were out of the parking lot. But the kids can now say they did something fun during spring break!