Trip to the Zoo

The kids are off track now and the weather is beautiful once again so I decided to take them all to Hogle Zoo today. The weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold. We ended up wearing our jackets almost the whole time we were there.
Some of the kids' favorite parts of the zoo today were the train ride, the elephants, the peacocks and the huge snake slide at the playground (which totally defeats the purpose of actually going to the zoo instead of the park down the street). Thankfully my parents gave us a one year membership to the zoo for a Christmas present this year so we can go as many times as we like for free, plus we get discounts on anything we buy throughout the zoo.
The kids are at ages now where it is actually somewhat pleasant going to the zoo and not a huge amount of work on my part. M&M is getting old enough to help out with the others and Kitty is old enough to walk on her own or ride in the stroller (she and Blondie took turns walking and riding).


Every time we stopped, Kitty had to climb out of the stroller so she could climb whatever railing there was around.






Here are some pictures of the kids on the train ride (Kitty was very excited) and going down the snake slide (I'll have to take a picture next time of how big the slide is).