Sunday, June 20, 2010
Brookfield Zoo
On the last day of our wild and wacky weekend we packed everything up and headed to the Brookfield Zoo for the day. What a day! We spent all day there looking at all the animals and corralling kids. Man, they're hard to keep track of among all those people. I'm certainly glad they all had the same shirt on! It's much easier to just count orange shirts than it is to remember what 6 kids are wearing! This time they had a brand new bear exhibit open that we had never seen before. It was really cool. They had also revamped the dolphin show area and made it was nice too. The kids really enjoyed the dolphins! So did the adults :) It was a really fun day but we were all really worn out when it was over and we all headed for home.
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| Patrick helping Emma see the lion. |
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| James and Ethan getting a close up view of the snow leopard! Don't you just love Ethan's reflection! |
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| Dolphin show |
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| Such beautiful and graceful animals. |
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| Checking out the dolphins underwater. |
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| A bunch of monkeys on a monkey. |
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| Patrick & Aunt Mimi |
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| Alya & Emily |
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| Patrick holding Emma's hand. How sweet. He really is a good big brother. |
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| Nannie & Nate |
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| Somebody SOOOOO needs a nap. |
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| In the primate house - probably should have left them there :) |
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| I just think pictures of my Dad holding my little one's hands are precious. Seems like yesterday he was holding mine. |
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| Look at all those arms and legs! |
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| Up close and personal with the polar bear! |
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| The boys were amazed how tall the bison was! |
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| I'd have been insane if Em hadn't come with me to help wrangle the kids! She must really love me :) And I must really love her since I'm not going to post any pictures of "the kangaroo incident". You'll have to ask her about that one ;) |
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| Kangaroo cousins |
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My kiddos.
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| Patrick picked the skunk and Nate had the snow leopard. |
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| Emma and Ethan with Uncle Mekeli. Can you tell Emma is having fun? |
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| Out of all the cute and cuddly animals on the carousel...Grace picked the cicada... Yuck. |
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| A bunch of crazies. How did I miss getting a picture of Benny?? |
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| The end of a very fun day :) |
Love the matching shirts, what a great idea! That's probably too many kids for leashes... (Danny's advice for keeping track of Alexander)
ReplyDeleteGreat pics! The matching shirts were a great idea!!
ReplyDeleteIt is SO much easier to just count shirts instead of trying to remember what each kid is wearing! Plus if one of them gets lost - I know exactly what they are wearing. The only down side is that all my pictures have them in the same clothes! ;)
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