Sunday, June 29, 2014

First Day of Summer Break!

Friday, May 23, 2014

For our first day of summer, the kids decided they wanted to head to the St. Louis Zoo.  
We hadn't been to the zoo in awhile, so we were all super excited! 
This year is the 250th birthday for the city of St. Louis.  As a part of the celebration, there are cakes hidden all over the city.  We found our first cake!

After we renewed our membership, we went to the sea lion exhibit.  We really love this one - there's a tunnel you walk through and the sea lions swim all around you - it is really neat!
The kids saw one of the zookeepers using a penny to get the attentions of the sea lions, so they both asked me for a penny.  They put it up to the glass and the sea lions would follow it.  This one sea lion just loved following Aidan's penny.  It was so cute!
 




We spent a lot of time with the Sea Lions!
A quick drink and snack break.  This is Aidan's first of two Dippin' Dots on the day!
On the carousel!  Lauren thought it was hilarious that the name of her animal was the "Wild Ass." 
It was like freedom to say "ass" all day!
Having fun making pressed pennies!

After we left the zoo, we found two more cakes!
One in Turtle Park - with Aidan's stuffed snake souvenir from the zoo!
And one in Dogtown.  They were excited to find this one because of the Irish theme - 
they knew daddy would like it!

And that was just the first part of our day!  Next post will have the rest of our day!



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