A Time For Baughnding: It's A Zoo

I know that a house with three crazy kids can become a zoo very quickly, but last week, we actually got to go to a place that is designed to house wild animals in confined areas. Our friend Cacee invited three of us to join her and her son Asher at the zoo for the morning. She has season tickets that allow her to bring one other adult. Xander is still free and this month allows all season pass holders to bring one additional person. All that to say, that the trip was free. An added bonus is that our zoo permits you to bring food into the park, which meant that we brought our picnic lunch and the whole thing only cost us the gas to get down there. What a great experience. Unfortunately, Trinity was in school and Craig was hard at work (but, we would have had to pay for them anyway, so it was probably a really good thing). It had been a wile since we had been to the zoo, so we were really looking forward to it!

Xander and Asher are the tightest buds, which made the trip that much more fun. One of the tricks was trying to point out all the animals hiding in the furthest corners of their habitats to Xander, but he seemed to enjoy the ones he could see very clearly.

There was a new exhibit called the Parakeet Adventure. We all walked into a huge bird cage and were surrounded by parakeets. We didn't purchase the $1 feed sticks, but we were given some as other patrons left the area. After a while we attracted a bird to our sticks (with three kids, I have no idea what could have been pushing the birds away). They had a blast!!