Zoo Trip

Last weekend we went to the zoo - it had been a while and the weather had been great during the week, so I was thinking it would be a nice cool visit.  Well, it was not so cool, but was a nice visit.  Biggest accomplishment was that we went through the special dinosaur exhibit and neither of the girls ran out in fear of the dinosaurs!  There were some that were "scary" and there was a request or 2 to hurry past, but I was very proud. 

 We had to ride the carousel of course.  And as in the past, Ella was SO excited until we got on the thing and then she wouldn't sit on the ride, so Michael held her the whole time.  I have yet to figure out what exactly she is afraid of!

 So, I'm finally getting natural smiles out of Addy, as evidenced in the pic above.  Getting Ella to sit still and look at the camera is still a challenge - she is still super cute though!

 Probably my favorite pic of the day.  Addy did a good job of getting Ella to crawl through the tunnel.  

 And here are the dinosaurs!  We were mostly able to casually stroll through.  The only part that did not get rave reviews from Ella was the dinosaur at the very end that would randomly spit water on you.  You don't realize what it is going to do until you get squirted and I think that it hit Ella right in the face.  The rest of us kind of enjoyed it considering how hot it was, it was kind of refreshing.  

The t-rex was not the most popular, but I made Addy take a pic with me to show how brave she was - you can kind of see the skepticism in her face though!