Gorillas, tigers, and komodo dragons....oh my!

The kids have been asking when we could go to the zoo and see the new komodo dragon there as well as check out the new playground.  Not truly thinking things through, I thought today would be a great day to do that since we had no school, no therapy, and would only need to skip out on swim team.  We went with some friends but so did everyone else and their cousin as we ended up parking on the sand across the street and our friends parked in Timbuktu.

 Even with everyone being there we were still able to see the animals we really wanted to see like the 6mo old gorilla baby, Kabibe, and the 2.5yr old komodo dragon:

And of course no trip to the zoo would ever be complete with oohing and ahhing over the beautiful peacocks, especially since they are Nick's favorite animal:

And really, who can blame him?  They are just gorgeous!  It's also completely necessary to go see the tiger cub, Jillian:

 The best thing about having the membership is we were able to go and enjoy seeing the couple of animals we wanted and spend as long as we liked admiring them without trying to see everything and then having a nice liesurely lunch before hitting the playground for a bit.  The new playground is wonderful and the younger boys definitely gave it two thumbs up.

And of course, no zoo trip would be complete without Matthew ending up with a new penguin.  Meet Edgar!