We have had great weather over spring break so I thought it would be fun to take the kids to the zoo while Hadley was out of school. Of course, I knew the zoo would be crowded but I assumed many people would have already gone earlier in the week since we waited until Thursday. I was SO wrong! It was the most crowded I have EVER seen the zoo. The parking lot was full, as well as the overflow lot at the omniplex, as well as Remington Park. We literally had to park on the very last row in the Remington Park parking lot and must have walked close to a mile just to get inside. In fact, I did everything in my power to talk the kids into another activity but they had their minds set. So after pulling a wagon all the way inside I was already exhausted. But in the end, it was worth it and we all had a great time.
Already worn out...because it's really hard to sit in a stroller!
We always stop at the rhinos first because they have always been Hudson's favorite. This time he wanted to see the gorillas next and they quickly became his favorite. However, whenever someone would call them gorillas he would get very upset and say, "it's a monkey!" They were all out and sitting by the window so we watched them for such a long time. The baby gorilla was out too and it was fun to watch her playing with her mommy.
After seeing a few more animals they kids insisted on the carosel next. This is definitely their favorite part of the trip and we ride the carosel at least a few times.
After riding the carosel we stopped at the little park and played for a bit before heading to see more animals and then playing at the big park. Hadley is a monkey bar pro and has callouses from playing on them everyday at school. She was trying so hard to teach Hudson how to do the monkey bars and I captured a few cute pics of her helping him get across. His face shows him struggling so much and then pure joy when he got to the very end!
It wasn't really the longest day at the zoo. The kids tired out, we got hungry for lunch, and Hudson had a haircut at 3:00 so we decided to head out early and get on the road. This is an idea of how far we parked. This is after already walking through the entire zoo parking lot. It is on the main street looking across the Remington park lot. Our car is literally the last row in the picture!
Waiting to get his haircut. He finally gets excited and doesn't cry when we have to get it done. Major progress since his high maintenace haircut requires him to get it cut at least every 3 weeks!
Such a fun spring break day with my kids. Having Hadley with us all day is really making me look forward to summer!
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