1st Trip to the Zoo!!!! (lots of pictures)

For Memorial Day Weekend, Mema and Pepa (John's parents) were in town, so we decided it was a good time for the girls first trip to the zoo. Hopefully this was the first of several trips with the girls (especially since we decided to become zoo members) this summer. Annette had a lot of fun and did much better than both of us were expecting. Carolyn had fun too, although she saw more of the inside of her carseat than anything else. Since the weather was oppressively hot we decided that we didn't need to see every single animal on this trip so we kind of just hit the highlights, but it was still a great trip.

Carolyn's ready for the zoo in her jungle print dress.

The first animals we saw were the "zebas"

(there is one in the back of this pic)

Annette like the children's zoo....

...where she saw the Llama ("llama.....llama") and the "cow"(actually a miniature Zebu).

She liked seeing the otters with Mema.

But she was not a fan of the carousel.

She did eventually sit with Daddy on it though.

She quickly got over it when we went to see her favorites......

the elephants....

and the giraffes.

She like the monkeys so much she tried to copy them and climb.

Fortunately she didn't copy the seals, too.

If we had known the zoo ended like this we would have gone a long time ago.

The zoo was really fun, hopefully we go back there soon. We are already talking about heading over there with Mary, McKenzie, and Reese.