Zoo Atlanta

Thanks to a generous Christmas gift from Brian and Kathryn, we have a family membership to the zoo for the year. It's awesome, we've been a few times now and I'm sure we'll go many more, especially now that the weather is beautiful. :) At first, taking two kids to the zoo took a little getting used to, but now it seems like we've established something of a rhythm. We start out all together, and usually hit the playground first. It's especially important to get to the playground early, as it gets crowded and a little crazy as the day wears on. Since Eli is now a few years older he tried all of the play equipment, even some of the tricky climbing stuff. While Keira spent a lot of time walking around, getting her bearings and watching the older kids.



Next, we usually head to the carousel, where Scottie snapped a few of the kids with their matching mouse hats. He joked that we could easily say that we took these photos at Disney. I thought Eli's zoo sticker might give it away. Incidentally, Eli was a gracious big brother and that allowed us to get these photos. He was happily situated on one of the animals that goes up and down, but when Keira sat on the large bench instead, Eli came over to sit near his baby sister. :)



After the carousel, we all head to the train. Then after a few rotations of train, carousel, train, carousel we usually split up. The girls head for some animal time, while the boys continue a rotation of the playground, train and carousel with a little of the mole tunnels thrown in for good measure. During one of our split up times, Eli took the camera and snapped this serious self portrait on the train.



After which, Scottie grabbed the camera and took this silly one.