One Last Hurrah!

Is summer really over?? Crazy. I can't believe that school starts tomorrow!

This morning I took the kiddos to an old favorite spot that, because it's been so hot and sticky, we have only visited ONCE this summer...the ZOO! Yeah, I can't believe we've only been there once too--it's usually more like once a week! Well, maybe now that we're heading into fall, we may make it there more often.

In anycase, I'll narrate our morning with pictures, since that's what everyone likes to see anyways!

The kids started out by giving me a great pose amidst nature.

We then headed down past the giraffes and toward the seals--where we got to see them get fed! Very fun.

A new feature to the zoo this summer has been these two new playground sets! Why had no one thought of this years ago?? SO great for little kids! Emily and Christian even made a couple of little friends and played had fun playing pirates. There were also lots of big, shady trees and so it was a great place for me to take Kari out of her carseat and let her look around a bit.

After the seals and the playground, we headed over through the new Madagascar exhibit and then onto the bears. Now, usually, the bears are all just sleeping and very boring. Today though, ALL of them were up and active! The brown bear was using his paw to get a drink and the polar bear was swimming laps :-).

After all that, it was getting close to lunchtime and Kari was "done" so we headed home. We did take one last stop at a popular site--the giant granite globe that spins on water. As you can see it's a kid magnet.

I'm so glad that we had such a beautiful morning to finish off our summer vacation! It has been a wonderful summer and even though we'll still be doing summer-ish things for a few more weeks yet, it won't be the same since Emily will be gone all.day.long now! (I have very mixed emotions on this still!) Anyhow, more on school tomorrow after kindergarten's big debut!