Saturday, March 19, 2011

Zoo Day with PawPaw

We all trekked to Abilene to spend the day with Pawpaw for his belated birthday. We decided to make a visit to the Abilene Zoo. Yes, it is true, we live less than 10 minutes from one of the country's best zoos and yet we still drove 2 hours to go to the Abilene Zoo! There is no explaining us!!

And of course - the minute we stepped out of the car the sun vanished behind the clouds and the wind picked up and it felt about 15 degrees colder! So much for the cute spring outfits!!

Daddy playing distressed deer noises trying to entice the big cats to wake from their naps! (It didn't work!)

It is just a tad difficult to tote one kid on a hip, a bag full of juices, snacks, blankets, sunblock, toys and everything else under the sun and still try to take photos!! So, yes, every photo in this post was taken with either Reid or Ella tugging at the camera and a ton of other rednecks trying to get a photo of a rhino hiding in its shelter!!


Three generations of Taylor men. Bob (pawpaw) Mark (daddy) Landman and Reidy Pete!

This was about as exciting as ANY of the animals got today!

An attempt at getting a group shot...Pawpaw's attention span is shorter than the twins'! LOL!


Mama's favorite zoo attraction!


This was about my 5th attempt at a photo of Reidy Pete and me...he was annoyed at this point! LOL!


I don't know how these giraffes don't weigh 4 million pounds. They do nothing all day but stand at the bridge and eat crackers!!!
It was worth it because afterwards Pawpaw took us to eat at Mary's (YUM!!!) The site of my and the hubby's actual 2nd date!

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