Zoo Field Trip

Zach and I got to tag along on Olivia's kindergarten field trip to the zoo today. I got up early so that we could all be at school on time only to get into Spenser's car (he had mine because it had to go into the shop) and find that the battery was dead. All of my friends were already over at the school, but I tried calling them a bunch of times anyway. Sadly, they are like me and don't always have their cell phones with them. I called the school and told them the situation and said that I would just take Olivia with me to the zoo if we didn't manage to get the problem sorted out soon. In between calling Spenser I saw that my neighbor had come home and so she let me use her car for a jump. I had never done it before, but the instructions were pretty simple even for me! Spenser arrived to find the car already up and running so he dashed back to work.

As I pulled into school I saw that the buses hadn't left yet, so Olivia was able to jump on and ride with her friends. After checking Thomas in, Zach and I piled into Johanna's car and we enjoyed a drive to the zoo with them.

The weather was just about perfect. Not too hot and not too cold. The kids had fun being together and ran from exhibit to exhibit all day long. We got to see most of the animals that we wanted to. Olivia was sad that she didn't get to take a peek at the clouded leopard though. The polar bears were also super active when we visited them and enjoyed fighting with one another, which the kids thought was great (probably because they do it such a lot too!)

Lilly, Ava, and Olivia

In the sharks mouth

Taking a look at the camel

The cute artic fox

I was really touched that all day long Olivia would ask me to take pictures of animals that she liked to show to Thomas. She said that he would be sad that he couldn't be with us, but she wanted to show him what she had seen.

Taking a short break

At the end of the day Olivia and Connor both decided that they wanted to ride the bus back to school. It was a fun and busy day and I was pretty surprised that Zach didn't fall asleep on the way home, but a movie and sitting next to baby Eliza definitely kept him entertained. Thanks for letting us come with you Olivia. We loved spending the day with you.