Going to the Zoo!

Today was family Zoo Day!! We had originally planned to go tomorrow, but thought we would have a better chance to beat the rain if we went today. So, off we were this morning to the Saginaw Children's Zoo. The weather was a little humid and a bit warm, but it was breezy and we got to spend almost 4 hours there before we packed it in (as the heavens opened up and poured down!) We saw so many things, here are some highlights:

The boys looooved that you could just reach over and actually touch a turtle,
tortoise really, but we let them call it turtle. They were very excited.

Now we are looking at the turtles (they are the ones that take to the water, turtles.)
There was one painted turtle that was climbing up the rocks, like he was trying to climb out. It was fascinating to watch. This was our surprised expression when he fell back into the water!


After a lunch/diaper/resting break, we went to wait for a train ride. The boys got into this cool old truck to play while we were waiting.

The funniest thing happened during lunch though, something we sadly couldn't get a picture of. As I was holding out a piece of pizza for Quent to take a bite, a peacock came strolling over and nearly took a bite of the pizza too! Or at least that was what he looked like he was going to do. He came right to Quent's side of the stroller - very close up and stuck his little beak out towards us almost like he was checking out what we had. Quent was a little weirded out about the "big birdie" being so close, but I said "it's okay, he won't hurt us" (I didn't think peacocks attacked, hoped not at least.) Tom tried to get a picture but hat is when the bird just walked away.
The rest of the day whenever we would see the peacock, even while riding the train, Quent would say, "it's okay, the birdie, it's okay." Just reassuring himself I guess. Sweet.

The 4 of us on the train. Now, if the train was not already super fun to look at, Oh boy was it the best that we got to RIDE on it! Quent talked, waved, and pointed out stuff the whole ride and Jack screamed "YAY" and clapped at the end of the ride. Adorable.

Daddy and Quent pointing out all the fluttering butterflies in the Butterfly house.
It was really beautiful in there.

The carousel was not Quent's favorite (he's on a stationary horse for this ride,
the 1st go round he was on a bench.) This is pretty much the face he made the entire time,
but then screamed and cried when we had to get off. Silly.

Jack, on the other hand, rode the up-and-down pony and enjoyed every minute of it!
He stayed right on that horse during 2 rides around.
It was cute as we went around he would say "Hi everybody!"

WE HAD A GREAT DAY AT THE ZOO!!

and...

we were totally out after 5 minutes on the road

We can't wait to go back again!