The zoo...

Jess & Ella, Grace, Eva & I all went to the zoo! I was very excited as I haven't been to the zoo since the arrival of the koala's. Grace got to go last week w/ Jess & Ella while Eva got her tubes so she's been talking about all the animals since. We'd planned our trip earlier in the week, and then the weather looked a little questionable, but Jess watched the news and said it wasn't supposed to rain until at least 1:00 p.m. Not sure the accuracy of that report b/c on the way there it POURED, it rained so hard on 465 that we could barely see to drive! But we kept going... thinking, "Its our day - we're not going to let a little rain spoil it!" Plus Jess said, we could always take the girls into the Butterfly Exhibit.... although, honestly we would have looked like drowned rats by the time we made it there it was raining so hard!

But by the time we got there it wasn't raining at all! I seriously thought while we were in there it might cut lose and I'd be soaked w/ two - three if you count Ella, soaking wet children, but we were lucky b/c it didn't rain at all. However, on the way in Ella tripped and fell (I think she walks in her flip flops about as well as I do!), she skinned both her knees... bless her little heart! I felt so bad for her. We headed back to the car for some First Aid, and the stroller... and then were headed back to the zoo again. Luckily from there on out we didn't have any more obstacles!

Once in the zoo, we went to the dolphin show - one of Grace's favorite things (she's been that way since she was little, although Eva only thought the show was so-so). We also got lucky and they were feeding the giraffe's. Grace had fed them last year w/ Breanna, well fed them sort of! She went up to feed them, got scared and threw her piece of cheese at them:-) But this time she and Ella went to feed them & she fed the giraffe her apple. It was so cute b/c she came running back saying, "I'm not scared anymore!!! I fed him the A-P-P-P-L-E!!!!"

We went through the Petting Zoo - although w/ no petting to see the horses, cows, pigs, etc... (Ella loved commenting on the poop! How much there was, or how big it was - it was so funny!).

After the zoo, we all headed to Hot Box (aka: Pizza Express) for breadstix, all of the girls did a good job eating... from there we headed home for naps!