Earlier this week, we made a super quick trip to Tulsa to visit the zoo. Millie's been asking to go again, and we meant to go before it was mid-Summer and too hot...but here we are at the end of June. Instead of putting it off until the Fall, we decided to go as early as we could, and I'm actually impressed we made it there by 9:30am. It was already hot, of course, so we skipped the buildings this time and just focused on seeing the big animals. I'm really glad we went. It's so easy to talk ourselves out of doing things because of the hassle and car rides and whiny kids missing their naps, but as Amanda says "we can't be hermits". We must get out there and makes some memories...so we did, and we made some good ones and the rest we will just ignore until we forget them completely. It's what parents do. ;)
Mills was extremely cautious this trip...she was scared something big was going to jump out and get her.
See how she's hedging? Those African Penguins can be pretty scary ;)
Syd Pid wasn't scared...she's always just happy to be included (and let out of the stroller)
The sea lions put on a great show for us!
the new enclosure is pretty cool
You can't see Mills' face well here, but she's blowing bubbles. She kept noticing the bubbles coming out of the sea lions' noses, and since blowing bubbles at swim lessons was fresh on the mind, she was pretty impressed.
Her favorite part of the day...the train ride!
Syd enjoyed it also...the cool breeze felt nice and there was so much to look at!
elephants!
I was very excited that there was a special dinosaur exhibit at the zoo this Summer. The last time the zoo did this was in 1992! I actually do love all things dinosaur, but JKK just goes along with it to be nice to me. ;)
Millie did NOT love the dinos. They were loud. Here's some
video of how she spent the entire trip through the exhibit.
JKK is such a good sport
Syd Pid was soooo exhausted by this point. We hit the road by 1 and she was asleep in the parking lot. :)
Mills wasn't far after...it was a fun day and worth the effort! I need to remember that...
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