Penguins

When Rhett got home from school today we decided to take the kids to the zoo to see the new penguin exhibit. Actually, we had some excitement before we even got to the zoo. We carpool with our neighbor, and Rhett rode home with her today. As she was pulling her car into her garage she saw a snake slither in the garage with her! Lane was here so I asked him to go help her try to find the snake. When he got there it was on top of a bicycle, but it got spooked by its audience and hurried under a storage shelf. It took a little while to locate the snake again, but Lane did find and kill it.

So...on to the zoo. The monkeys were active today--they were leaping from limb to limb, and C yelled "MONKEY!" several times when he saw them.

The penguins were really cute and fun to watch in the water. I'm glad we have this new exhibit.

Alexee asked me to take her picture in this penguin cut-out. :)

The kids always want to take a ride on the carousel. It was humid this afternoon so Rhett's face was pink from the heat!

And we weren't quite finished with penguins yet. Rhett had asked if we could go by Barnes & Noble while we were out because he wanted to use some of his allowance to buy Club Penguin guidebooks. So we made a quick stop there, and R couldn't wait to get home to play the Club Penguin game and use some of the hints he found in his new books.