One day at a time: ZOO AGAIN!!!

Chris, his mom, and sister!

Chris' mom and little sister headed down from MN on Thursday to spend the rest of Spring Break with us. Thursday night we just kind of hung out and let Winston get to know his Grandma and Aunt Riley. He loves to chase Riley around and she loves to take him on walks. Friday, Chris took off and we headed to the ZOO. For those of you who don't live in the Fort Worth area....Zoo+Spring Break=Millions of people. You may think I am kidding however, I am not! On Wednesday they had a record breaking ticket sales at the Fort Worth Zoo of 23,000 people.

Since this is really what Riley wanted to do, of course we were going. The avid zoo goer that I am, knows you MUST be in the lot by 10 am or the parking is gone. Therefore 9:45 we were in the car and off, keep in mind we literally live 5 minutes max from the zoo. Sure enough the lot was already half full, but no worries we don't follow the normal zoo crowd. As stated in the zoo post from E and B's trip....We work the zoo BACKWARDS! This means when everyone else enters they head to the right and start at the gorillas and monkeys. We do those guys LAST! Instead we head all the way down to the reptiles at the other end and work up to the monkeys. This mean we walk up the crowd making it easier to navigate too.

Since we start so far away, honestly we had no idea how busy the zoo really was. That was of course until we got to the end for the monkeys. You couldn't move...people were everywhere and thank goodness we didn't have a stroller. No worries...it was another WONDERFUL trip to the zoo. When we asked Riley what her favorite part was she claimed "feeding the birds." Really it is worth the dollar to feed them (only if you are that early) and get a chance to hold one on your stick.