Elise had a fieldtrip to the zoo a couple of weeks ago. I signed up to be a parent chaperone and Jody
and Sarah decided to come along for the ride.
The weather was beautiful and we had a really fun day. The two girls that were in Elise’s group are
both in our ward. It was funny to see
their different reactions. One of them
would get super excited about every animal we saw (scream and giggle kind of
excited) and the other one only wanted to spend about 12 seconds at any one
exhibit before she was bored. It was
interesting. The highlights were seeing
the wolves up close, watching two tigers fighting, the baby giraffe, and the
polar bear.
I decided to buy a membership to the zoo so I could take all
of the kids a couple of times this year.
They got out of school early on Tuesday because of parent teacher
conferences, so we headed down. It was a
perfect day to be at the zoo. By the
time we got there all of the fieldtrips had left for the day and we had the
place pretty much to ourselves. It was
awesome! We lucked out with our timing
and saw lots of cool animal behaviors.
Emily made a list on the way home of all of the fun things we saw:
Between nagging the kids about homework and cleaning their
rooms and practicing piano, lots of days I feel like I am just a bossy, grumpy
mom. It was really quite lovely to just
hang out with them and have fun together.
We should do it more often.
2 comments:
Our dinosaur park membership just expired, maybe I should consider getting one to the zoo. What would you say your favorite membership has been?
It totally depends on what the kids are into. We certainly got our money's worth out of the combo pass that we bought for the dinosaur park/Union Station because Ben was in love with dinosaurs and trains. But, if we had that now we would never use it. We are giving the kids passes to Toads for Christmas because they are all big enough to enjoy it. I picked the zoo because the kids hadn't been since they put in the whole Rocky Shores area.
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