Oh THAT's Why They Call Them "The Crazies"!

I saw a commercial that said there was a baby elephant at the zoo, and I thought Elsa, who has always been partial to elephants, would like to see one of those.

Then it occurred to me that Ryan's sister was moving far away and we had wanted to see her a little bit before she did. We considered seeing if she wanted to bring the kids, but by the time the idea occurred to us, it also occurred to us that she had to pack. Then it occurred to us that packing is sooooooo much easier when there are no children calling you "Mommy."

So we stole all the children within range and took them to the zoo.

Where we saw one giant floating ball,
several turkeys, (which we stared at for a long long time because apparently this is nearly as interesting as looking at lions and tigers and bears),


And we saw monkeys; there were some IN the cage too.

"oooh oooh eeeh eeeh"

We got a great up-close view of the new baby.


We ate lunch with a zebra.


Adele found the zoo stimulating as you can see. And Tyda was number one!

There was a baby giraffe too.


The kids who group-posed on the lion right before us were WAY less cute than these kids. For real. We felt a little sorry for them.


There was a baby ...one of these. I think it's a leopard or something.



The girls stared at him for a long time. Almost as long as at the turkeys.

Look at that cage Hawley, it's a Hawley!

Kidding, it was a monkey when I didn't use flash.

Biggest surprise of the day: The girls who cower from goldfish, shy away from dogs, SCREAM at common house flies, these girls actually climbed barriers to move closer to THIS thing.

Wanna know what it is?

Look:

Pink birds are perty.




OK the picture I wanted to take was when these two were very seriously studying the map to see if we were getting close to the train or not. But this happened just as I went to take it. There was no urgency or anything, they just decided it would be a good time to run.
This is called "everyone do what Elsa does."


"Look at me when I talk to you!!!"


"But Daddy I love him!"

Ask any of them, this was the best part of the day right here:
They are such fun girls and I am just getting to know them. I was telling Ryan on the way home that I had thought they were cute and all that before but that what took me by surprise was that, after we dropped them off, I felt really sad.

I'm gonna miss 'em. We decided to take them because we thought it would help the moving process, but I am really really glad we got to spend a day with the lil' monkeys. And I hope there will be more days like that to come.