Hogal Zoo

Today was such a great day! Brian took the day off. That is always fun! Well we called it family day. We slept in. Seriously Adalyn slept until 8:30, and Annika was about the same.
While I was getting ready, Adalyn started crying and Annika decided that it was her big sister duty to climb into Adalyn's crib, and pat her head and tell her it was ok. Then we started discussing what we were going to do for our family day. We gave Annika options Swimming, The zoo. And she chose the zoo. Actually she chose swimming and then the zoo, but we decided the zoo would be enough.


We got to the zoo, and Annika didn't want to walk because she was afraid of the train. But yet she wanted to ride the train. We walked in and the first thing that we saw was the monkey's. She really liked them. We walked around the zoo, and eventually found the carousal. She loved it and wanted to ride it all day long. She got to ride it twice. Once with me and once with Brian. We went up and saw the tigers, and I guess they had 3 cubs last year, so they still aren't full grown, but they are big. They were playing with a big barrel that they had hung up in the tree and painted zebra stripes on it. It was so fun to see the tigers doing something other than laying in the shade. Annika didn't care at all. She found some other little girls and they went and watched a pond, with some flies. Brian and I were enjoying the tigers.



Then we made our way to the giraffes. I was taking a picture of Brian and Annika and this giraffe decided to pose for the camera too. Annika loved all of the animals, but was definitely ready to go by the time we were done. We had a lot of fun, and wore both of the kids out. The whole time Adalyn played in the stroller. She liked the zoo too! I should have taken a couple more pictures of her. As we were leaving the zoo, we tried to get a family picture taken. Annika would not put her hands down, but we have a picture documenting that all 4 of us were there. I guess that is all that I can ask for. What a great family day! I wish we could do it more often!
After the Zoo we went to Red Robin and all Annika wanted was a drink like the little boy had at the zoo. (we saw kids that had snow cones.) So she got a smoothie!