Seattle

 We went to Seattle a few weekends ago with my parents. We have been wanting to take our kids to the zoo, especially Lucy, and Woodland Park Zoo is the closest. We also stopped by Monroe, WA and saw the Reptile Man which my kids also loved. We stayed in a very lovely hotel that had an indoor pool and my kids were in seventh heaven. The zoo had animals in very large habitat areas and not in cages per say so they were a little harder to spot. We got to see almost every animal thought for the most part.

 It was a BIG zoo and took us about 3 hours to get through it all and we even skipped some exhibits.

                                          There was a carousel that Isak and Lucy rode twice.

Kevin and I also celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary that day...3 kids, who would've thought?

Isak and Lucy were willing to pose as snow leopards for me.

This asian sloth bear came our right as we walked by. He had giant hairy ears. 

 In the aviary you can feed birds with seed on popsicle sticks for $1 each. Well by about noon, these birds are quite full and not so interested in the seed. Isak and Lucy were able to see this one up pretty close. I love the look on Lucy's face here.

 Oh and the reptile man. We've seen him a couple times, once at a school and then at the library so my kids were pretty excited to visit his actual "zoo" where all his animals live. These turtles were um, giving us some great national geographic moments while we were there. We ushered Isak and Lucy along but it was pretty funny.

 Isak loved the 2 headed turtle and got to hold a snake while we were there. Lucy also tried to hold the snake but got scared once it started to move. These kids are much braver then me!

 There was an outside tortoise garden where they just walk around and sun bathe. Isak was pretty cute, "uh hello, tortoise, my name is Isak. I'm five". He really liked them.

 So Lucy really liked the tortoises too right up until the end. This large one above started to walk towards here rather quickly and it spooked her. Kevin picked her up and the thing kept tracking her, it was pretty weird and it kept following her. Scared poor Lucy and she started crying. So that was the end of Reptile Man.

 

 It was a fun little vacation and so great of my parents to take us with them. I also got to stop by IKEA in Seattle and pick up some things for our house which was completely crazy on a Saturday afternoon with 3 kids. But I got some great stuff to organize our mess of a house right now so hopefully with the completion of our kitchen our lives will start to get back to normal.