Zoo Time!!

We decided to take the kids to the zoo in Salt Lake for a family outing on a Saturday at the end of September.  It was a perfect day, not too hot but still sunny!  The kids loved seeing the animals.  This was actually Ashley's second time to the zoo!  She got to go with her kindergarten class for their end of the year field trip last year, so she was excited to go back.  Above is a picture of the kids in front of the zebra enclosure.

This is a cool water feature at the entrance of the zoo.  It's a ball that has water running all over it that makes it roll around on top of the teeny little pool that it sits on.  I don't know how it works, but it sure was fun!

This is Gavin in the primate room.  He really wanted to see the monkeys, and you can see that he thought it was pretty cool.

Here's the elephants.  This was taken right before one of the elephants started to, um, relieve itself.  Gavin and Cierra kept asking why they were peeing their pants and not going on the potty.  How cute!

Ashley is touching a huge wooden sculpture of an elephant.  Every once in a while it makes elephant noises and sprays water out of its trunk.  We tried to get her to sit on the trunk, but she would only get close enough to touch it.

This is how Ashley would measure up to a gorilla.  I can't believe how tall she is getting!

Here is Gavin compared to a gorilla.  He's a little guy!

This was one of my favorite pictures.  Here is Cierra doing a gorilla with ATTITUDE!  Cute!

We ended our zoo trip with the train ride around the zoo.  Ashley and the twins sat in a seat together while Bryan and I sat in one behind them.  

It was a fun day.  Now that we live up here, hopefully we will be able to do this more often!