A trip to the zoo

Yesterday my mom and I decided to take a trip to the zoo. The weather has been nice so we decided we had better take this trip before the weather got ridiculously hot, which I know it will be all to soon.

We went to the Chehaw Park Zoo in Albany because I just cannot stand the crowds in Atlanta and the kids didn't know they missed the elephants and giraffes in Atlanta. The kids had a good time and were exhausted by the end of the day.

We started our adventure with a train ride through the woods around the park. Alivia loved it and thought it was the promised train ride that she is to get for her 4th birthday. Dylan on the other hand was ok the first ten minutes sitting there. After that it was all I could do to keep him from jumping out the side of the moving train. My silly daredevil.

As you can hear from Alivia's giggles she really enjoyed her train ride. Dylan, not so much.

After the train ride we had to go check out the reptile house where both kids were quite enthusiastic to see some snakes and frogs. Gross!

Dylan was a little scared to approach the "petting zoo" animals but got giddy and had to check them out when he heard the pigs rooting in the mud. He didn't want to leave them when he figured out how cool, yet stinky they were.

I didn't get many more pictures at the zoo because I had to keep an eye on the Diggy man. He was chasing squirrels off the path and into the woods. Picking up cow ants and other strange bugs along the trail. Trying to jump in the water at all the little bridges we had to cross over, and he even tried swimming with the gators. Remember we are near the Okefenokee swamp and things are kinda nasty. I swear he is all boy! Here are some gators ready to get a taste of Diggy.

After the zoo we went to the playground in the park. The playground is massive and I always have fears of losing one of the kids every time we go. Good thing the 5 bus loads of kids had gone before we got there to play. There were only 2 other kids at the playground with us so that worked out nicely.

Aside from our zoo trip not much else is going on around here. I wish we had things to do around here for the kids. That is one thing I have always hated about our town. I've done every kind of search I can think of to find things to do around here but all we have is an air force museum and golf courses. The city parks are nasty, old, and rickety but we still go for the occasional picnic. It's just hard to entertain the kids all day every day and I think we need to have more fun in our lives. I guess we will just have to take the occasional day trip and drive 2 hrs one way to get that though.