Zoo Day!!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

John was out of town the entire week last week so I took the girls to the Birmingham Zoo for the day.  Some friends from church joined us and it was such a fun day!  Here are just some of the special creatures we saw at the zoo:

                                                                           
                                                                          A gorgeous macaw                                                

                                        a cute little bird of some kind that kept poking his head out

                                                               and trying to bite Bonnie

The Lorikeets........beware of them pooping on your head...happened to a little girl with us....feeding nectar to the lorikeets all day long can be a messy situation! Look how BEAUTIFUL they are!

I thought it was HILARIOUS how these monkeys slept sitting up like this!

This gorilla posed for me to take the photo. How so very kind of him!

No swimming.....NO KIDDING!!!

Cute pics of the kids at the Zoo

Barklee, Joshua, Hugh, Bonnie, and Marah

Bonnie and Ava looking for alligators and turtles in the water.  Bonnie was giving Ava a lesson on what to look for

Ava LOVED looking at all  of the animals!  In this second shot, she LOVED looking at her reflection!

Petting Zoo photos (Ava LOVED the goats!)

And at last, we made a stop at the splash pad.  This was perhaps the most fun part of the day for them.  Bonnie was exhausted and bumped into another kid and started crying and it was downhill after that.  She kept saying she was NOT TIRED but I knew otherwise.  After about 30 minutes at the splash pad, both girls were ready to head back home.  Needless to say, Ava was asleep before we left the parking lot!  It was SUCH a wonderful day spent together with my sweet girls!