Zoo Day

We met our friends at the zoo for a fun day of animal sightings. Zachary's favorite animal is the elephants. His second favorite is the alligators, but we'll get to that.
The zebras were all lined up, I was trying to get them and the boys in the picture, but I only captured these cuties.
We managed to get all of the kids in one place and relatively still, but gave up on trying to get everyone to look the same direction!
So, the alligator story. Even though everyone else was headed to the rides, Zachary was very adamant that we go see the alligators. On the other side of the zoo. Alex, Zachary and I headed toward the alligator tank. One of the alligators was dozing in the water, but the rest of them were sleeping in the grass. In order to see them better, we started to go around the alligator tank toward the river otters. Suddenly a gush of water started running down the hill and some older kids were running around yelling that the otter tank was leaking. Interesting. As we walked by a zoo employee, I said "wow, you've got quite the commotion here." His reply "the otters are playing in the grass and everyone is excited." Really? No mention of the leak? But sure enough, the tank was leaking! And it was feeding time for the otters. A momma otter was diving after the food the keepers were throwing in the water and taking it to the babies, who were tripping her and falling all over the place. As we were walking toward the chimpanzee area, I saw another zoo employee walk by with a big roll of duct tape! One of the chimpanzees was carrying his blankie around and then sat down to snuggle. I'm so glad Zachary was so insistent on the alligators!
When we finally made it to the ride area, our friends were still there so we were able to take the train ride with them! And Zachary got to take his first trip on the car ride!