Zoo with Grandma

In August, Grandma came to stay with us for a few days so we decided to go to the zoo. 

Little Bear was interested to learn that the placement of an animals eyes is telling of their food chain behavior.

"Eyes in the front, the animal hunts. Eyes on the side, the animal hides."

The little ones were interested in looking at the skulls and yelled "Thank you!" To the zoo employee when she was done explaining everything.

There's either an alligator or a crocodile in this area (Little Bear will be ashamed that I don't know since he explained the differences to us while we were there.)

Of course the older kids had to milk the cow again. I think that this is one of their favorite things about coming to this zoo.

Pudge, Grandma, and Daddy decided to brush the goats. (All of the kids got to feed them but Pudge was the only one who wanted to go into the fence when the guy asked.)

The kangaroos are still a big favorite as well. We weren't able to go into the area that day since they were all on the walking path. The kids didn't mind though and had fun telling Grandma all of the facts that they remembered about kangaroos. Little Bear also had some questions for the zookeeper who was great and very knowledgeable with them.

 Pudge's ABSOLUTE FAVORITE animal (since going on vacation) has been turtles so he was keeping his eye out for them. When we finally got to them, he just wanted to hang out and watch them for a while even though everyone else was checking out all of the animals in that area. So we let him watch them for a little bit while Daddy, Grandma, and the other boys started going towards Little Bear's favorite animals.

The wolves! It's hard to tell but there are three of them in this picture. 

Then we saw Pequeño's favorite which is the horses.

We walked around for a little while longer and then went on a scenic drive to look at some of the local scenery and new housing developments.