On Thursday morning, we laced up our walking shoes...
These Nike Shox were a gift to Josiah from Aunt Mandy. All the boy cousins have worn them!
And headed to meet our friends, Rachel & Kylee, at the zoo.
Kylee is very serious about using the map. She kept us on track the whole time.
We started at the flamingos.
Saw the penguins.
A few turtles.
And tortoises.
And a whole lot of creepy crawly things, like water monitors and snakes.
The kiddos were all great about my many suggestions for photo ops.
And got a fairly close up look at a giraffe!
We packed a lunch, so we enjoyed a picnic.
Cooper was having a meltdown about the broken drink machine situation.
(insert eye roll)
We let the kids play on the playground a while, then headed off to see more animals. Cooper kept saying he had "a motts on his shoe". It took me quite a while to figure out it was a Motts brand fruit snack and get it, now gooey/melted/smashed, scraped off! ha.
Owen took advantage of the stroller for a little nap.
While I took more photos of kids acting like monkeys.
And posing on statues.
Kylee kept us moving right along with her map.
Even though it was in at least three pieces by lunch.
The lions were resting right by a viewing area. If you look closely, you can see my boys right by them.
Rachel took this photo up close, while I waited with the stroller away from the crowd.
That was about the time Owen woke up.
He was hungry, so while I fed him, Rachel took the big kids through the rainforest before we left.
Rachel and I have been friends since high school and it's great to get together when we can. No matter how long it's been, we always pick up again like we just saw each other yesterday.
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