Friday, August 14, 2009

Indianapolis Zoo

Tim and I decided to take a short trip with the boys before summer ended. Indy is under 4 hours away and had a lot to offer with the kids. So we snagged a cheap hotel and headed east for the weekend.
The Indy Zoo is most like Lincoln Park in Chicago. Small and easy to cover in a day but had other things to offer like a roller coaster, train ride, carousel, and splash park. The kids seemed to really have a good time.
They had a great FREE dolphin show there. Jax loved the "ish" as he called them and Hayden liked when they jumped real high!

What a handsome guy I have here!
I'm only about 17 hands high... Hayden will pass me up in a year!
Jax and Tim are only this high
This is a Scottish Highland Cow that I thkn Jax had a crush on.
Here he is mooing through the fence.

There were all kinds of amazing large animals at this zoo, including Jax's favorite, the elephant.
He could of stood and watched them for hours. He kept waving and making elephant sounds at them.
The roller coaster was Hayden's favorite. It was a typical child-friendly coaster but the took you around 3 times; which made you feel you got your moneys worth. :) Can you see him in the middle? and yes that is me riding with him.

Tim took the boys on the carousel and of course Jax rode the elephant!
Hayden wanted something more manly.

This seal was either posing for pictures of sun bathing... we couldn't decide which. :)
The shark tank was the coolest!! Tim and I touched real sharks! Which by the way feel flat and slimy. We couldn't convince the older child to even come near the tank.
This was all on day one of the trip. After the zoo we headed to our hotel for some quality time with the pool :D

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