Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Zoo Part Two

It was really neat to see the zoo through the eyes of Butter and Roo. The wonder and fascination they had for each different animal. Or when they recognized a behavior that they share with them. I don't think it had dawned on them that animal mommy's take really careful care of their babies or bears like to play and fight together. Or how slow turtles are, especially when eating. Nicholas was most fascinated by the underwater aquarium. Where he was up close to all the swimming fish.

After a long day of walking, and being in the humidity, we let Roo play in the fountains. (Butter did too but she only got her feet wet. Which is typical Butter.) What is also typical for her is running ahead of us. This would explain the lack of pictures of her, or lack of her in the pictures. She was always one thing ahead of us and I spent a fair amount of time trying to reel her in. Oh, well. She just gets less blog time!

And here he is falling, try telling them not to run is like trying to stop a train.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Trip to the Zoo

It started out cloudy, and began to rain just as we got to Apple Valley. Wouldn't you know it the meteorologists were wrong again! We planned our trip thinking Friday would be the nicest week day. And We scored the zoo passes! It turned out to be a fun trip. Roo liked the hissing cockroaches, the giant fish tank and playing in the water.(more on that tomorrow.) Nina liked the dolphins and sea otters. Hubby didn't get to see his favorite the groundhogs because it was too hot and had gotten to be late in the day. I loved the grizzly bears! They were so playful and fun to watch. Here are some pictures.

We rode the monorail and got a chance to see the zoo from above. Roo really thought that was cool. But he wanted to go faster!

So for now we say goodbye from the bear cave.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Naps & Pancakes

It has been a busy and relaxing week. We were suppose to go on vacation to a cabin on Wednesday, that did not work out. So instead Hubby and I decided to do vacation "in town" style. We spent a day at the pool with our cousins, Auntie and Grammy. Went to the library. I got lucky and got a Zoo Pass which gives us two free admissions to the MN Zoo. We will do that on Friday. Thursday morning Hubby made pancakes! Normally this is saved for the weekend but he made them for us today. Yummy!

On the busy days Roo gets tired but sometimes refuses to nap. Here is is fighting the "tireds".