We love going to the Zoo... so at the sight of good weather we packed up our kiddos (ok Amy only packed up Eli...) and we invited along little Camden and we all went to the Zoo. Amy upgraded our membership to a "passport" and that means we can ride the monorail and carousel as many times as we want... HOW COOL IS THAT. She is amazing anyway we headed in to do the Monorail first thing and it was closed till 11 so we went to meet up with our fave silverback gorilla and he didn't dissappoint. Patrick was right up close. This time Leland and Eli didn't seem to be so afraid of him once I went over into this little corner with them and they got right down next to him. It is AMAZING to see him up close and if you live in the Dallas area it is worth going to see him...
Amy loves seeing him so close to. It is really neat to get to be so up close with such a huge animal. 
I love love love this picture of Eli right up close... he is looking at the school kids but he was more wishing they would leave. I think he really enjoyed Patrick this time!
We had to get a group shot and poor Camden was NOT comfortable at ALL with it. She was shaking so badly... poor little girl... she will probably have a fear of gorillas now...
Then or course there was the Epic Battle of being able to turn the crank at the penny press. Leland had been over there playing with it for some time (and a school group of first graders kept pulling Leland away until I got loud enough for the teacher to hear... oops...)
Camden was a bystander who kept looking back sure Amy or me would come to break up the fight.
The battle Clearly ended when Eli shoved Leland and got his hand a little too close to Leland's mouth and Leland chomped down... Poor Eli! Then we finally got to ride the monorail... most of the animals weren't out so we were glad we didn't pay for it!
Amy got stuck by Leland who is the hardest on the monorail... that whole sit still thing is really hard for him!
We then headed to the childrens Zoo and played there for a while but it was SO crowded because of all the school field trips that we headed out to the carousel and rode it 3 or 4 times
Little Eli doesn't like the ones that go up and down... but one that goes in circles... totally his cup of tea... only its a nest... but there was nothing clever for that
Leland LOVES riding the up and down ones... but didn't mind riding with Eli either. Poor Camden didn't get to rid in the nest because Leland didn't want her to touch the steering wheel thing in the middle...
Amy riding with Eli and Camden... they are good buddies....
You can tell how many times we rode it by all the different animals and benches they sat on:D
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It was almost like being with you all at the zoo. Thanks for the great pictures and blogging. I loved looking at the pics and reading all that you did. It's good to know that going with the flow is in the genes. Wish I could have been there with you all.
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