Hogle Zoo

It had been a while since we had been to the Zoo - so we decided to make that today's adventure! Zach remembers the "train ride" at Hogle Zoo....all four of us were able to ride it this time. Logan's first train ride at the zoo...he was a pro! No pictures from that ride, mom spent the ride keeping Logan sitting on his chair.

We also brought a picnic lunch for us to eat. The kids started to enjoy that until they realized all the distractions that were around them. There were some birds making some noise right behind us. So the boys climbed the brick retaining wall to get a closer look. They were being nice to each other so I took a picture...

Some of the highlights from the trip were the elephants. Zach loved how this one made noise (not a real elephant)...

Logan couldn't take his eyes off the real elephants. He stood there and watched them for a good 10 minutes before we convinced him to keep looking around for other animals...

I think the next big highlight for the kids were the giraffes.

At this point it was just too HOT to stay outside. We made the loop back towards the carousel for a ride, then got some ice cream to help cool us down. Zach rode the tiger, Logan rode the panda.

You know it was a good day when on the drive home you look back and see this....