Hogle Zoo

In talking with a bunch of friends on what they did over Fall Break, it seemed that everyone went to the Zoo. But amazingly, we picked the perfect time and the perfect day to go. We had almost 3 hours there on Thursday, and still only saw about 50 people (even some we knew), and it was wonderful weather. It had been a few years since I had taken the kids there, in fact Jace and Hannah had never been. And Nate remembers his last time going was in elementary school. We may need to be better about getting up there and visiting. Also one great thing that we noticed (along with the nice weather and small crowds in the fall), is that most of the baby animals had been born during the summer, and were still just as darling as ever. We saw a baby, giraffe, elephant, tiger and many others. It was such a great experience, I'm sure I can talk Nate into it again ;-)


There was this huge elephant made of metal that would make loud noices when people would step around it....You'll notice that we got all the kids to sit on the elephant's trunk for a picture...except for Hannah...the next photo will explain why.


"Get me OUT OF HERE!" I love parental torture!


These next 2 pictures are traditions of mine I guess. I have a few photo's from growing up drinking out of the same lion's head and standing next to the gorilla's silhouette to see how tall I was.




Fun animals everywhere. This giraffe baby is the only baby picture that we got. But the Tiger put on a fantastic show while we stood in front of him. Hannah's mimmicking 'Roar' was too cute...to bad we don't have video of it.


Sara and the kids...seriously the weather was FANTASTIC!

Hannah waving goodbye, and finally agreeing to a shoulder ride from Nate. She actually walked about 95% of the time. So you can imagine the quite car ride home with her after walking nearly 2 miles on her own. She completely crashed!