Spontaneous day at the zoo

And by spontaneous, I mean we were dropping Damien off at work and I asked Micaiah if he wanted to go to the zoo. He said yes and we were off! So we dropped off daddy and headed there. I don't think I've been to the zoo with just me and the kids in - well ever. We're always there with friends. Sora, Miciaiah had a great time. I really need to do it more often.

We decided to ride the monorail. We've never done it before but we should have because it is so cheap and fun!

It stopped at four places so we got out and walked around and saw the animals at each stop. I liked this sign. Obviously, it was a confusing translation. But I had Damien read and this is our take: "If you ride the elephants today than you will be able to meet a small, newly born elephant." Then, at the bottom where it says "soon" I think it's supposed to be translated to "right now" or "immediately." Of course, that's only our amateur translation but I have a feeling it's at least a little closer than the one they have up there. :-)

The zoo is FILLED with school groups. They are so cute and always dressed in a bright color.

Both of them are actually smiling if you can believe it. We definitely need to work on those fake smiles!

Somebody starting to get tired!

I love that there is a 7-11 in the middle of the zoo.

Sora is deathly afraid of birds in cages. We can go in a aviary and she doesn't have a problem but if I make her go close to a bird case (big or small) she freaks out. It's actually pretty funny.

We found a really fun animal show. I was trying to get a picture of those animals walking on the pole at the top of the picture but I think Sora's face is pretty funny too.

Someone else pretending to sleep.

And she was done. As we were walking to the car she had a meltdown. At least we were already on the way out. She wasn't too thrilled I was taking pictures of her crying either.