Our day trip ...

was the destination for today. Daddy is leaving on Wednesday for a long three months of work related travel. Therefore we wanted to do something different and fun before he left.

So we left the house at 9:30, stopped and picked up some breakfast and drove a good hour to visit the Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium (which the aquarium part just opened a few weeks ago). It was a gloomy, rainy day ... therefore lots of mud and puddles. We had a good time though despite the weather and wore ourselves out. We got back home around 3:00 all tired, muddy, and ready to clean up! We are going to miss Daddy while he is gone, but we had a lot of fun today to hold us off until next time!

Reagan is being adventurous and touching a starfish! Very uncharacteristic for her!

Reagan & Riley enjoying running around the aquarium ... this is on the stairs to the Penguins.

I tried to get a picture of the girls posing with the Albino Alligator, but Riley wouldn't stay still and Reagan was afraid to take her eyes off of him ... I guess she was afraid he would get her!

There was a neat tower where you can feed the Giraffe's from, however, my girls were apprehensive to feed them. So we just got some good pictures of the other people feeding them.


These monkey's were all huddled up together sleeping. Riley loves monkeys and enjoyed all the different ones we saw today.

Of course, we had to ride the carousel and who would of thought that this old carousel would have a Dalmatian to ride on! What Luck!

Riley was very concerned about the turtle eating the "apples". I told her they were tomatoes, but she did not care ... "Apples Mommy Apples".

The Albino Peacock was really cool too! I wish he would have opened his feathers so we could have seen them.

We got to go and feed the birds apples ... Reagan was not enjoying this at all. The birds were everywhere and would land on your head, shoulder, anything to eat.

Mommy even was brave enough to go in an feed them ... and for those of you who know Mommy well enough know that this was not easy for me to do with a smile on my face. What mom's do for their kids! Riley wanted to pick them up, she had a blast!

To end our day, Reagan and Daddy got to ride the new log ride. This little ride goes through part of the aquarium and then does the usual log dive. Reagan was so excited that she had her raincoat to keep her dry. She got on the ride willingly, but when they got to the "climb" part, she started to get nervous. Scott said she wanted to get off, but there was no way off. She hung in there and had a great time. When it was over, she asked to do it again. And she just got a little bit wet in the seat, not much though!