Rainy Day

Today Savannah had a dentist appointment in Green Hills. So, we planned to go to the Zoo after the dentist since it is on our way home. Well, the weather had a different idea and it started to rain, but it was off and on. We decided to go anyway and take our umbrellas. When we first arrived, there were quite a few people there. As the rain picked up it totally cleared out. We virtually had the Zoo to ourselves. We had a picnic under one of the tents by the elephants and two of them came up close to where we were eating and were playing in the mud. We walked up to see the giraffes and one of them was standing very close to the fence. We laughed at another elephant trying his best to eat some leaves off of a high limb above him. We ran around in the rain looking at different animals and then we got some relief from the rain inside the reptile house which Piper loves because she can walk around looking at all of the creatures. When we came out of the reptile house the rain was gone, so they all played on the jungle gym all by themselves! But the highlight was feeding the birds. Since there were hardly any visitors that day, they had not been fed much nectar. When the kids went in with their nectar an attack ensued! Maveric was so freaked out that he dumped his nectar out onto the ground and ran! Savannah and Josh were covered in birds and Piper looked on amazed. It was so hilarious!! Afterwards we hit the Krispy Kreme for donuts and hot chocolate. A beautiful rainy day!