MORE animal time

Another way to keep the house quiet for daddy, is heading to the ZOO!

Which is even more enjoyable when the older kids get to participate in a zoo camp so that only the smaller kids need to be toted around.

And then they get their chance at being the "Queen" of the mountain.

And to pilot the helicopter.

And even tame the elephants...

This polar bear looked much cooler and comfortable than we were feeling, luckily it was pretty overcast so a lot of animals were out in the open and we didn't feel quite as heat exposed because the sun wasn't beating down on us.

And then, in the end, we let it ALL hang out...There were giant buckets of water that had paintbrushes in them so we could "paint" the walls. But, somehow we ended up painting ourselves too...maybe to cool off like the animals?