Oh, what a busy life...

It has been a busy busy weekend. I will probably chunk this into two posts. Friday, we went into the zoo for this homeschool class on squirrel behavior. It was interesting. The lady talked about squirrels and the different things they do and then she gave the kids worksheets-- the idea was to find a squirrel and track its behaviors on the chart. However, all the squirrels disappeared the minute we started looking for them! I mean, we had seen tons of them while she was talking.. we even saw a black one. But once we have to see one to study it, they all run away. Bad little squirrels. The class was fun and the kids enjoyed it, though. I did not take pictures of the class, but, since we had metro'd into DC, run the 1/2 mile to the zoo (we were late, as usual!), we were definitely spending the day there! We got to the zoo right at 10am and got home at 4pm. That's a long day in the sun for us, especially since Trevor and Rachael walked everywhere. Here's the pictures:



Since food is ever present in my childrens' minds, we ate lunch first. Trevor was thrilled to see they had Boca burgers on the menu.



A pygmy hippo. Most of the time we drive to the zoo and come in at the back parking lot instead of the front of the zoo. Coming in through the back lot gets us through the petting zoo, the big cats and the invertebrate house before everyone is tired. Coming in through the front, we saw Cheetahs, Red Ruffed lemurs/small mammal house (but no ring tails! *sigh*), the zebras, pandas, pygmy hippos, food cafe and gelato stop.



Trevor and Rachael getting their hair wet at the water fountain. It was 80 degrees that day. The DC zoo is mostly hills. It's quite a trek to make it through the whole thing. We stopped a lot.



A red ruffed LEMUR! I adore lemurs as much as I adore cats.

The zoo completely exhausted me. I love the metro, but with a stroller and three children, wow, it's an adventure. I will definitely be metroing in again, rather than driving. The kids LOVE riding the metro. In fact, Ariel cried all the way from the metro to the car (until she zonked out in the car) because she was not done riding yet!