Special Zoo Trip

So I met one of the Zoo directors at Trident and he invited us to a behind the scenes look of the Zoo!! It was really nice of him and we had a lot of fun! Of course Autumn and I brought our zoo buds Courtney and Maddy!!

Here's Kira the female lion!
Here we are backed up against the fence!! The girls were very quiet because the lion was VERY loud!

This male lion thought Autumn and Maddy would be a tasty treat.

The girls petting the fat rabbit.

Chris got the girls stuffed animals!!

Courtney and I fed the giraffes and the girls played with the umbrella pole

Autumn's favorite!

The baby Zebra!! He came right up to us

A yummy snack for the jaguars!! Fish stuffed coconut. He said the zookeepers are most scared of the jags

Maddy petting the rhino

Autumn's turn to pet the rhino!!

The rhino stopped eating her breakfast to come say hi to us!!

The girls throwing sticks and rocks

Petting the baby hedgehog!! It was so scared and flinched everytime you touch it!!

Little guinea

New Bed and Room

Autumn Moved! We put her in the old catch-all/den/Sam's room when he visted. For the last few weeks she was on a mattress on the floor, but we finally got her a real bed in there and started putting some of her decorations back on the wall. So here are a few pictures of the new room.

Reading to Mom.

Reading to Mom in their new UA shirts.


Cuddling with Mom and her workbook.

Dolphins!

As promised here's a trimmed down video of the Dophins on Mission beach. At first 2 or 3 (that we saw) headed left past us (about 20-25 feet past where Autumn and I had just been) then about 35 minutes later what appeared to be 4-5 came back by us. It was really cool they were just beyond the waves.

Mission Beach

On Sunday morning we went to Mission Beach. It was cold and completely overcast of course! We also saw dolphins and I attempted to take a video of it! It was pretty blair witch, so Chris is going to have to edit it!!

This wave came out of nowhere and completely wiped Autumn out! I wish we would have gotten a picture of her completely soaked but she was crying and very cold! So we actually put the camera down and took care of her! Needless to say, she didn't play in the water for the rest of the day. But we did play in the sand!!

Autumn likes long walks on the beach...

I just like the lady in the background here.

She threw lots of sand on me

One big sandbox

Baywatch auditions...

So relaxing!

Hanging out with Aunt Liz!

Uncle Jordan came by!!

We bought her sand buckets and shovels, and she used this little plastic piece of trash.

My feet hurt! TOOO cold!

Shamu's show

Here's a couple more pictures of the Shamu show and a short video!

Sea World

For Labor Day weekend we went to San Diego!! It was a blast of course, and we were sad to come home!

Autumn and Chris waiting for our food at Cafe Coyote!
Autumn and me being cold.

Just before leaving Sea World, Autumn gives Kelly a good squeeze

On the Elmo Fish ride

More rides in Sesame land.

Touching the Starfish

Shamu!

Trying to feed the full Bat Rays

In the shark Tunnel

Penquin Friend

Just as I was taking this picture the rolling memo changed to Flt. 11 to MOOSE!!

Beluga

About to watch the pet show!

Pet show set.