Spontaneous trip

We took a spontaneous trip to the Minnesota zoo on Saturday. We woke up that morning and were like, "what should we do today?" We gave ourselves a few options... Science Museum, State Fair, MN Zoo, or a long bike ride. We figured the Science museum we can do anytime of year, I wasn't in the mood for the huge crowds that go to the fair, the bike ride was still an option, but it felt like it would be a fun trip to the zoo. And it was. James and I haven't been there for like 9 years, so the kids have never been there, we always take them to Como (it's free). We had a wonderful time. The weather was beautiful and the zoo is so nicely designed, so you don't miss anything, you just travel in a circle. It was awesome, maybe a little spendy $ wise but we were able to spend 4 hours there and it could have been a little while longer, probably a half hour to a full hour but we decided to skip a few things. It was so fun to see the zoo through Evan's little 2 1/2 year old eyes. He loved it! We went to como last year and at 1 1/2 years, he didn't really get it. So it was fun to see him "get it". Then we have our almost 7 year old wanting to read all the signs we come to. Now Phillip, he would zoom ahead of us before we knew it, we ended up loosing track of him briefly at the Grizzly Bear exhibit, only to find him right up to the glass watching the bears but he was blocked by a huge crowd of people, so we were unable to see him. All ended well. The sad thing is that the pictures that I posted with this are the only ones I took that day. They are of the prairie dogs, and i just think they are so cute but I was so distracted with looking at the animals and keeping track of kids that I didn't pull the camera out. Ah well.