Monday, February 28, 2011

First Zoo Trip of the Season and Menu

Every year around this time, we have a random gorgeous sunny warm Saturday, and the kids and I run off to the zoo. Last year Henry was just a few weeks old. We have a family membership and the zoo is just a few minutes from our house, so we go often. But the first trip is extra special (and always starts with a quick dash into the zoo store to buy sunscreen, because I haven't stocked up yet!)

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Henry was completely exhausted and did this the whole time.

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Sophia's favorite - the giraffes.

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And my favorite - the otters.

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I also like the turtles sunning themselves on logs.

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But this guy was particularly awesome - look at him with his little legs all sticking straight out!

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It seemed springlike to us

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but the bears were still snoozing... looking at them made me want a nap sooo badly!

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My poor, deprived kids - they didn't get to the ride the train, they just got to wave at other people riding the train.

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They make it so hard - you have to have $1 bills on you, which I never do. I just need to go one day and buy a hundred tokens and carry them with me at all times... yeah right.

Amelia loves the animal track in the sidewalk.

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This gorilla (Katherine) was so funny - she quickly snatched up all the sweet potatoes the zoo keeper threw to the gorillas and then climbed into her little tree house and ate them all. Little hoarder! (and if you look closely you can see she might be sending a message to the other gorillas with her finger ha ha ha!)

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I love that our zoo has farm animals.

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We stopped for a snack - the kids had exciting new culinary experiences. The girls had their first Dippin' Dots and Henry had his first French fries - both a big hit!

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Speaking of food, here's our menu for this week:

MONDAY - maple soy salmon, brown rice, asparagus
TUESDAY - breakfast (dad)
WEDNESDAY - green pizza
THURSDAY - Deb's 3 bean chili, cornbread
FRIDAY - honey sesame tempeh and quinoa bowl
SATURDAY - chicken spaghetti, salad
SUNDAY - pork loin, brussel spouts, sweet potato bread

~~ HAPPY MONDAY! ~~

4 comments:

Linda said...

Loved the pictures from your trip to the zoo! It looked like a great day.

I like to go to the zoo with the grandkids and see them having fun. Hoping to do that when it warms up here.

Have a lovely day...oh, and be sure to join in Lynnette's Spring Blog Hop tomorrow on Dancing Barefoot!

Linda @ Truthful Tidbits

affectioknit said...

When we lived in Columbia - we were near a big zoo and we were members so we went all the time...now we're so far away that whenever we're in a city that has a zoo - it's always on our to do list...yours looks like so much fun!

Sarah said...

Great pics!! That Gorilla is hilarious. I think we may have a zoo around here? I gotta go check. Though I've been spoiled growing up in San Diego...the SD Zoo is spectacular and everything else just never measures up. LOL

Val said...

I love all of your zoo images.

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