Zoo Adventure

Earlier this summer my cousin Beau and I decided we needed to take a weekend and take our kids down to Hogle Zoo. He has two girls right about Christopher's age, Harli 6, and Kayli 5. So this last weekend we loaded up and headed to Salt Lake. We stayed on the 10th floor of the downtown Marriott. The kids thought the elevator was a great ride, and when we looked out our window they couldn't believe their eyes. They were amazed how far up we were.


Chris and Kayli

Averee, Harli, Kayli and Chris.

After we checked in and got all squared away we headed out to Cabela's. We met my aunt Jen, her husband Tyrel and their son Holden there. They had made plans to come up to the zoo the same weekend and I had know idea, so we did make time to get together and go to Cabela's. They were all pretty excited to see each other.

The kids checken out the deer!

The "giant" elk

After Cabela's we drove out to Beau and my uncle Stan's house for dinner. The kids were amazed by his motorcycle, but Chris was the only one who would sit on it. He told Chris next time he would take him for a ride! Christopher was pretty excited about that.

We ordered pizza for dinner. The kids had a blast and played in his pond, it was empty but they were pretending they were rock climbers it was cute. Here is Ave sitting in the stroller enjoying a drink of milk. After our pizza we went back to the hotel to let the kids swim. They had a blast.

The next morning we headed out to the zoo. This is right as we were walking in the gate. The kids all had their sun glasses on and wanted a picture with them.

She never really kept hers on.

This is about half way through our zoo adventure. It was so dang hot and the kids were tired of walking. So we decided to hit the gift shop. I let the kids pick out one thing each. Chris picked a long stuffed snake and he played with it pretty much the whole way home. Ave grabbed a stuffed alligator and wouldn't let that thing go for anything. So that's what she got!

By the time we were getting ready to leave the zoo Averee was out cold. She was so tired she didn't even wake up while I was putting her in the car. The kids had a blast and they really liked the zoo, I'm glad we decided to take the time to go!