Day at the Dallas Zoo

I have been wanting to take our kids to the Zoo for MONTHS!!! This summer it was just too hot, and I knew it would be fun to wait for a day when Dad could come with us.....well the day happened this last Thursday and it was wonderful!!

Here we are waiting to pay our admission to go in. We brought the double-wide (Texas talk) stroller to allow Sam and Kaitlyn to take breaks from all the walking. Sam took the first turn to ride.

We saw so many animals. We did see some large Crocodiles, nothing too exciting because they were asleep on the beach but man were they huge! Sam as you can see was a little intimidated by this statue, but a cute photo-op nonetheless.

And some African Penguins who didn't need the cold temperatures to survive. They were quite active and you could watch them from the glass swim under water too. Isn't this a cute shot of Kaitlyn making friends with the penguin?

We made our kids walk a lot. It was part of the plan to wear them out so we were insured a quiet and peaceful ride home. I love watching Stephen be a dad, he so excellent at it. He adores his children and they think he's their hero!

This is a photo of Kaitlyn taken at the zoo, just a few months after Sam was born. And here we are just 2 years later...my how things change

So we saw the Elephant (ele-fanant), some Rhinos, the Tiger (Ti-grrrrrr), Gorilla, monkeys (the "oooh-ooh-ee-ee's"), Flamingos (Flaming-goes), Llamas (like Llama Llama Red Pajama), lots and lots of birds.

The weather was almost perfect. We got there early before the heat of the day, there were lots of shady places to walk too.

Then we had a picnic lunch

And Kaitlyn climed on this spider web rope contraption.

And then we went home. It was a wonderful day and a marvelous memory for our family.