Sarah Stayed Home: July 2012

I have been wanting to go the zoo since spring. You know back when it wasn't 100 degrees out every single day! Well blame my procrastination but we made it to July and hadn't been to the zoo yet. Lilah loves all things animal and since she hadn't been yet I was dying to take her. Luckily we got a 2-3 day break in the heat so I packed up a small cooler full of water and juiceboxes, made some PB&J's and headed off to the zoo with the kids. You know it has been Satan hot when you think the mid 90's is a break in the heat!

I haven't been to the Kansas City Zoo in years, not since Kaleb was 4! We have gone to Omaha to the Henry Doorly Zoo a few times and that place is fabulous! They have so many animals and cool exhibits and everything is in close proximity to each other. KC Zoo..... doesn't really have any of that. It's main advantage? It is in the city we live in. It is a 30 minute drive. The end. They don't have very many animals and you have to walk 100 miles in between "exhibits". Maybe if I didn't have an awesome zoo experience to compare it to I would think it was better. Doubtful though. But it is what we have so we made the best of it!

I said before that Lilah LOVES animals. She wants to "hold" them all. Even the big scary ones. It is really cute at first but after explaining to her 10 times why she cannot hold the animals it became less cute. We saw a polar bear swimming, birds, tigers, orangutans, lions, giraffe, zebra, hippos, giant tortoises, camel, and few things in between. It was pretty hot but we managed to make it through the whole place in 5 hours and they kids enjoyed the train ride, the playground and the carousel. All in all it was worth the $30 bucks spent and we made a nice memory! And of course I took picures!