Our go to outing

With the cold and wet weather, we haven't been able to enjoy our go to outing : feeding the ducks (and by ducks I mean pigeons) and going to the zoo (and by going to the zoo I mean riding the carousel). Since our plans to pick berries and visit a local farm were cancelled due to muddy and wet ground at the farm, we decided instead to brave the crazy Spring Break crowd and give the zoo a go.

Since it is Spring Break, we got to the zoo right when it opened at 9 and got the last parking spot in the main lot. First stop was to feed the ducks the crusts of the bread I'd been saving for the past few weeks. It is so fun to see how excited they get to feed the pigeons, and only a little heart attack inducing when they go running full steam towards the water. Thankfully, we've not had any mishaps yet ... knock on wood.

Get the bread bird!!

 After feeding the birds, we continued into the zoo. We always see the Meerkats, Elephants, Monkeys and then ride the carousel. The carousel is definitely Pumpkin's favorite part, and she still gets excited every time we turn the corner and she sees that it is working (it hasn't been closed since August, but she is always worried it will be closed again and gets so happy when it is open).

Since it was Spring Break, she didn't get to ride the Leopard (her current favorite) but was just as happy on an African Deer. Though you'd never guess it from the lack of smiles I was getting (of course as soon as the carousel started moving she was like a giddy school girl).

Typically the carousel is the end of our zoo trip, but this trip we continued on to the children's zoo to pet the goats and play in the play area. Both kiddos were very excited to pet the goats, and Bubba kept hitting one poor, very patient, goat in the ear and saying "HI GOAT!!" All in all we had so much fun we might just go back tomorrow too :)