day 3~

day three started at...

HENRY DOORLEY ZOO!

i was a little worried about this day. the kids are still pretty young and i knew it would be a lot of walking and things like this. we got there around 9 and stayed till about 4. i was amazed. i thought the kids did really well and for the most part really enjoyed the animals!

here we are starting our zoo trip in the desert! the kids were ready to see everything. briea was just enjoying her nap!

of course kael starts our trip off with some humor. there were some pumas fighting over a tree branch. kael put one of his little hands on his hips and started pointing his other finger saying "hey pigs stop fighting...NO-NO-NO!!" garran and i got a good laugh out of it. this is him being very upset about the whole situation.garran found a little friend and decided to show him a little love!

after we left the desert, we were off to the monkey house. how appropriate. i think we could have stayed there all day!~

kael thought it was so cool that this big guy was sitting there checking him out. kael was talking to him and smiling. this big guy just looked back and would touch the glass here and there. these orangutans were so funny. they would stick their hands out trying to get you to give them food. obviously not allowed. however still funny to see them use their fingers in a gesture like "come here please, give me food!"cullan was surprisingly interested in all the monkey bones. he kept calling them his dinosaur bones but he stood and looked at each one for awhile.

we also went to the aquarium part of the zoo. this part was awesome!

here is this penguin just hanging out!

the next part was so cool. they had a tunnel you could walk through and see all these turtles, sharks, sting rays and tons of fish swimming all around you. im sure im forgetting some things that we saw but the boys were amazed. they thought the sting rays and sharks were pretty cool. (these pictures are in the tunnel. i know it is kind of hard to tell)

there were so many sharks! it was very cool. we stayed there for a while to look at everything.

then off to see some more animals!

this pretty tiger was just hanging out, enjoying his day.we were going to go into see all the butterflies in the butterfly garden but they did not allow strollers or wagons. ARGG! so we decided to skip that one but grandma and grandpa got their picture taken in the butterfly chair!

you know that if there is a train...WE MUST RIDE IT! so we brought tickets for the train that went all around the zoo. we got to see all kinds of fun things like elephants, zebras, giraffes, i could go on and on.

daddy and our briea girl waiting for the train ride to start!cullan and grandma! grandma looks like she is really concentrating on whatever animal we were passing at the moment. =)

grandpa and kael. (can you tell we saved the train ride for close to the end of the day. grandpa and kael are starting to look like sitting down on the train is a good way to rest for a minute)

our last stop of the day was the rain forest!

we got to see some pretty birds.kael and daddy got to cross a cool bridge!last but not least our own little monkeys got to practice swinging from some vines! i am still hearing about the tree swing!it was a great day! i think that everyone had fun. thanks again to grandma and grandpa g for coming along and having fun! a special thanks to my parents also who made it a lot easier by finding a great hotel for us. that made such a huge difference. we are so grateful that we were able to stay there and get some good nights of sleep for our busy days!

(ps. sorry again about all my pictures but i have 340 something from our week away. so i am trying to only post a few and not seriously kill you with picture overload!!!)