I had the pleasure of joining Jayce and his first grade class to the zoo last week. Each parent was assigned 6 kids and sent off to explore the zoo for the day. The bus ride there was nearly uneventful, we sung a little, worried a little about Renee looking a little fluish, but she kindly let us know it was because "I just didn't get very much sleep last night." Still I kept a bag ready.
We headed across the little bridge and started mapping out our plans for the day. Renee says "Hey! I've been here before. In fact, I've been here twice. I won't get lost, I know this place like the tip of my tongue." Before I could stifle a laugh, Lauren piped in "Oh, well I've been here 4 times. No, 10! We come here all the time!" It was then I knew this day would be far from boring.
We saw all the must see animals, but the Mandrill's seemed to be the favorite. As soon as they were within sight whispers became belly laughter, and all I could make out was "Rainbow butt, look at the rainbow butt" As another group came near, my group made sure they were aware they were looking at a rainbow butts. Nice.
Squirrels were very friendly and ate right out of our hands! Well, Renee's hand, she had the chip crumbs and courage. 
Off to the Zebras. Again, Renee enlightened me with her wisdom. "I just love those zebras. You know those? They are the ones with the stripes. The black and vanilla ice cream colored stripes." I hadn't the heart to tell her they were normally white and that she just liked the dirty ones.
After lunch, I let them run through the splash pad and get soaked. Another mom was appalled they they had gotten all wet. But they were happy and we had 2 whole hours to dry off before we had to board the bus again.
Cotton candy was a rip off at $6 a bag, and of course the kids wanted some. Once we got to the stand I asked Clay for his money, knowing he didn't have any. He turned to Cade and asked him is he had any money, and around the group the question went, until we all realized we didn't have any money. I must admit, it was a great way to take the heat off myself for not wanting to shell out all that cash.
We had a great day and Jayce and I got to spend some much needed mom/son time together.
Looks like a lot of fun. I'm glad you got to go.
ReplyDeleteso did you shelly get seperated? Love the zebra comment "vanilla ice cream stripes". And you really are the nice mom to let them get soaking wet.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun day! The most fun for the kids is getting wet, so good for you for letting them!
ReplyDeleteWow, the zoo. I hate the zoo. Didn't that stress you out? Seems like I always get the kid that runs ahead and makes me leave the group to retrieve them. Looks like you guys had a great time and I'm sure you were the best Mom there!
ReplyDeleteI love going on the kids fieldtrips...they get to go so many fun places...of course we mom's want to tag along...
ReplyDeleteIt is too bad that we couldn't keep our groups together. Counting to 6 was much easier than 12, though. I should've taken more pics and wrote down the cute things they said. Good job, super cool Mom!
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