World Wildlife Zoo Visit

I got to have the van Friday while Bill was at work so the boys and I thought we would go do something. The World Wildlife Zoo just opened their new aquirium so we thought we would check it out. After very expensive tickets we started to explore the zoo. The aquirium was great and the kiddos just loved it. Benjamin really loved the penguins and Matthew just loved being able to touch the stingrays and crabs. The rest of the zoo was pretty much the same, still different and the kids loved it. We took a ride on the zoo train there, it was a blast. If you haven't seen it, it goes through the animals areas...well some of the animals anyways. We went in with the different kinds of deers, ostrich, and many other kinds that I don't know what they are. The conductor had to fix something along the way so he stopped right in the middle of the field where all the animals were...kind of cool and scary all at the same time. They all thought they were getting fed so they just huddled all around us. We also went on the skycap that is a ski lift that goes over lots of different animals. It was nice too, other than Matthew loosing his shoe in the one mean animals area where they won't go in to recover it. Remind you these are Matthew's new shoes that I just loved.

Anyways, we got to see the baby white lions and we got to hear the singing dogs sing. They also have a house there now that houses whatever babies they have...there was a couple of different babies in there. Anyways, what a great facility, one of the largest breeding facilities of endagered species in the world. I understand that is why their costs are so high, but I think it was a bit much. On a good note, the boys love it and Benjamin was not happy to have to go to the "old" zoo when we went to see the Komodo Dragon they just got. Hope you enjoy the pictures though and thanks for looking.

Halloween

Oh I just love taking the kiddos out and seeing them so excited about trick or treating. We had a busy weekend but it was all well worth it. Saturday we had a wonderful visit with Great Grandma Wina, the kids just love visiting her. We then got home and got the house ready for visitors. We had a nice dinner with La Canasta's great green chili burritos and some sides. We finished it up with Bill's birthday cake. We headed over to Estrella Park for trick or treating with all the kiddos. On the five minute ride over Matthew fell asleep and was asleep for almost half the time we were out too. People still gave him candy while he was passed out in the stroller, it was really cute. One house scared Justice pretty good too, it was great!
Okay, Justice was Blade, Benjamin was Buzz Lightyear, Matthew was a Dragon, Anna was a pink leopard, Andrew was a monkey and Julia was a beautiful princess. Even Trisha and Papa Bill dressed up...she was a witch and papa was in his cowboy outfit. Bill drew a curley q on Ben's chin for his outfit and he was so proud of it. He would go up and tell everyone, "look at my curley q." It was so funny, Matthew wasn't too happy with his outfit unless he was sitting in his car seat because it gave him something to rest his head on. We all had a good time and as always, I was just excited to see the kiddos have so much fun together.