Patty Johnson's Blog

Adam had darts early in the morning and Lily and I woke up early too because they were all getting ready. It was a nice day so I decided we'd got check out The NEW Zoo. It was about 12 miles from our hotel but I had directions from mapquest so I wouldn't get lost. We got there a couple minutes before they opened at 9am. First we went to the petting zoo area and fed the goats and deer. At this zoo you can also feed a giraffe so I definitely wanted to do that. The first feeding time was at 10am so we stayed around the area for a while and then went to a little playground that they had on site. There were at least 3 bus loads of kids so Lily was having a blast. It took me a while to convince Lily to leave the playground but then we went and saw the giraffes. We bought some crackers and fed them. It was pretty cool and giraffes have huge tongues. Lily dropped a piece of cracker and I told her to at least push it close to the gate so the giraffe could get it but he just swooped his long tongue in and got it no problem. Was quite a site. Then, we did each section of the zoo and took breaks to play with the kids at the playground. Lily liked all the animals and really had a blast. Every time she saw an animal statue she'd want to pose in front of it. We were there until about 3:30pm so it was quite a long day. Lily fell asleep in the car so we went back to the hotel. We had planned on going out to eat as a big group but that didn't happen so we picked some food up at Pizza Hut and brought it back to the hotel and just hung out the rest of the night. I brought a dvd player with us but I couldn't get it to work with the hotel tv so Lily kept herself entertained with my laptop. More picts of the zoo at my Dotphoto HERE