MN Zoo

The bears were really active Sunday afternoon at the zoo.  I think the last 3 times we've been to the zoo they were 3 sleeping lumps!  This one was swimming and giving a show to the people behind the glass.

Just as I walked away from the glass the other two bears came from around the corner.

It was a hot day and I think the bears were restless!

How many kids can you get to stand in front of a giraffe sign without someone passing in front of you!?

About a month ago I got an e-mail from the zoo that they were going to be shutting down the monorail after labor day.  It was a pre-owned system and is outdated and the company who built it is out of business and they don't want to invest the money into a new monorail.  We had never taken the monorail, but the boys love watching it when it passes by!  I thought we needed to get out to the zoo and ride it before it's gone.

We had to wait quite a while to get on the monorail, but the kids did good waiting.

We found that you can watch people better from the monorail than animals.  The system was built before the bears were around, so you don't even get close to seeing them.

They did get a nice view of the giraffe!

It is a cool way to see the zoo! 

The boys headed out to the farm to see some animals and sit on the tractor of course:-)

This picture is missing Jack who didn't want to get out of the stroller and Colin who is too small to be in the picture.  It was fun to have everyone at the zoo.  After the zoo we invaded iHop to get some dinner!  I think that rookie server we got was about ready to freak when he saw the 16 of us arrive for dinner:-)