Normally when we make a trip to the zoo we head to St. Louis. It’s the zoo I always went to growing up, it’s big without being too big, and it’s free. During our last visit, the zoo was under a lot of construction which really limited what animals we got to see. A few weekends ago we had the most perfect weather so the kids and I decided to try out the Kansas City Zoo. The KC Zoo was recently remodeled and had a lot of new exhibits including Polar Bears. This zoo is HUGE and there is a lot of walking. You can tell the zoo was built…
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Boo At The Zoo
Every year the St. Louis Zoo transforms into pumpkins and all things Halloween for Boo at the Zoo. If your zoo does something like this, you definitely have to check it out!
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Fall at the St. Louis Zoo
Since I had to be at the 1/2 marathon at the crack of dawn, J and I along with my family went to St. Louis the day before and stayed the night. The weather was in the 70’s and it was the perfect day for walking around at the zoo. Apparently everyone else had the same idea and although it was packed, we had a great time and Ben got to do his favorite thing, ride the train. The baby elephants were so darn cute. And because I’m all about the nostalgia, here is our family pic in the same spot in 2009. Ben was 7 1/2 months old. Riding…
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An Animal Affair: St. Louis Zoo
Since I’ve been such a bad blogger lately, I am just now getting around to posting about our trip to the zoo two weekends ago. I had been nagging asking J to go to the zoo since Summer, but let’s face it, 95 degrees and animal droppings do not sound like fun. As it turns out our procrastination paid off and we just happened to have one last weekend where it was 70 and sunny. We seized the opportunity and off to the St. Louis Zoo we went. Oh, look it’s a monkey. Wait, what is he doing….. Just enjoying a little snack that he pulled from his rear end! That’s right.…