Now all three of us have ridden a camel!

We met some friends at the Zoo ... and not "our" Zoo so we had little idea what was in store for us. When we arrived we grabbed a map and started walking around. The kids of course started the day running through the mist showers that were everywhere, eating a snack and having us buy them something to drink.

After we saw a few animals...and yes, the African Wild dogs were asleep... we spotted the camels. There were three big ones and one really cute baby one. Garrison (who is 8 yrs old) said he wanted to ride so Annslee headed to pet the baby one. I was telling her all about how Mama and Daddy had ridden a camel before when we were in Africa. I told her how Daddy's camel wasn't very nice and tried to bite him. Suddenly, she proceeds to go over to the place where you get on the camels..she pointed and said "Anns" I couldn't believe what I was hearing so I asked her if she wanted to ride and she said yes and cheered. I paid the $3 and thought I would be coming back for a refund...well, I was wrong! She jumped up there and never looked back. I do admit I got pretty nervous because it was a really tall camel LOL

*I was pretty far away so you can click on any photo or collage to see better

After the ride she hugged and kissed the camel goodbye...I know, yuck! Then we went to look at the penquins. On the way we tried again to get a photo of Annslee and Garrison together...this was the best we could do

The baby zebras were really cute and we watched them for a while. The second photo is her reaction to the gorilla picking his nose and then..well, you know : ( She got one of those pennies you crush and have an animal on it and she was showing it to the monkey and I think he wanted to eat it. Finally, we were resting and she said "Mama" and obviously thought I should take her picture.

I bought a carousel token eventhough I know she usually won't ride it without me on there in a choke hold. She chose the red panda and I thought was going it alone (she did ride a camel earlier ....) but no, I had to ride too. I will say she is getting better and I was able to just stand there without her grabbing me...I really can't figure this one out ??

After lunch we passed the camels again and these boys handed her some watermelon to feed to the baby camel. I then bought some feed and she loved it eating out of her hand...it tickled : )
It was hot, late and naptime....and she was still being silly!