Lakes Family FUN Blog: More Zoo

Yes, we go to the zoo alot. But every time there is some new cute FUN experience, and our trip last week was no exception!

We evidently went on field trip day and O.M.G. there were ALOT of kids there.

Finn watching the “mingos” with the big kids.

So I know I’ve mentioned before how much Finn loves to crank the wheels on the souvenir coin machines…..here’s another picture of him at work. On this trip though, someone else actually wanted a souvenir coin and Finn sat watching in complete amazement…..and thank you to that kind soul who also let him touch the coin when it came out. Made.his.day.

Elephants jogging momma!

So…..a few weeks ago when we went to the zoo, Finn stuck his hand in one of the candy machines and found a quarter, he pulled it out shouting “money momma, money!” so excited. So I let him keep it and he put it in his pocket (which by the way is his new thing and is seriously cute as can be….but also might be why we had to replace our washer a couple of weeks ago….I’m going to need to start checking his pockets before washing anything!). And now, every time that we go he checks all the machines. and every single time he has found money! Seriously! What are the odds? But every time he puts it in his pocket and we put it in his piggy bank when we get home. Here he is digging for gold

On this trip, we snuck up on a gorilla taking a break from everyone else, sitting all alone on the very edge and super close to us and we were the only ones over there! He kept looking back over his shoulder at us as we were talking about him. I mean we were saying nice things, but I think he wanted some alone time.

But he was quickly joined by two more friends

and then when we went into the gorilla house, which is our usual snack time spot, three of the baby gorillas were playing right in front of, and on the glass! They were jumping all over the place, all over each other, jumping on the glass, pounding on the glass and there were SO many kids in there shrieking the whole time, it was priceless, adorable and so much FUN! I couldn’t really get a picture though since there were so many kids and I had to also keep a handle on my own two!