A Trip to the Zoo

Monday we headed to the St. Louis Zoo! It was Delaney's birthday and we let her pick where she wanted to go. Mama and Papa are Grandparent Zoo Friends at the St. Louis Zoo. This comes with many, many benefits which are so fun for us to enjoy! We are so lucky they have done this for the grandkids!

We started out at the Children's Zoo. We first went to pet and brush the goats.

Dane wasn't so sure about them at first.

He warmed up to them a bit and smiled.
Finally decided he wanted to pet one.

Delaney had her best friend, Rylee, with us for the day.

The girls took turns pushing Claire and Dane.
I see good babysitters in the future!

In the hippos mouth-

Dane wouldn't take his hand out of his mouth and

Claire didn't want to be in the hippos mouth,

so this is the best picture I could get!

Delaney rode down the slide with Dane.

He came down giggling. He loved it!

Taken Monday, June 7th at the Children's Zoo.

Taken in September 2009 at the Children's Zoo.

Dane checking out the potbelly pig.

There was a little boat in the Children's Zoo.

Dane had a ball steering the boat.

Aunt Amy helped Dane GENTLY pet the guinea pig.

Having a snack break

Holding Hands!

We headed to the Sea Lion show after the Children's Zoo. We got there early so we could get good seats. Dane took a little cat nap before it started.

Sea Lion Show

Dane was amazed watching the sea lions.

We rode the carousel

and the train.

We were at the zoo for about 4 hours and were very busy.

We took full advantage of Mama and Papa's Zoo Friends Membership. We got free parking, free sea lion show tickets, saw the stingrays for a reduced price, rode the carousel, and rode the train. We figured it up and we would have spent $88 for all of us to do everything we did, instead it cost us $10.50 and Mama and Papa still have lots of passes left and have already renewed their membership for us next year!

Thank you Mama and Papa!

We were ready for lunch so we headed to the U City Loop for lunch at Fitz's.

Dane read some books before lunch and was super good

even though we had a VERY, VERY slow waiter.

Delaney got a big surprise when the waiter brought her a huge ice cream float for her birthday!

She shared with everyone. Dane loved it and would grunt very loudly if I didn't get him another bite fast enough!

We are loving our outings and the kids are having so much fun.

Dane always falls right to sleep as soon as we get in the car to head home.