So We Went to the Zoo...

...in December.

About a month ago, Half Off Depot was offering tickets to the Atlanta Zoo for half price. Bennett has never been to the zoo, and he gets in free until he's three. Seeing that his 3rd birthday was on the 17th, I thought it would be fun to go and nice to take advantage of the free ticket while we still could. So I purchased mine and Josh's tickets and decided to go Sunday, December 5th.

I figured the first weekend in December would be warmer than the later ones, plus we had plans for the other weekends. I looked up the forecast for that weekend, but because it was so far off all they had posted was an average temperature for the last few years. The average was about 55 degrees.

Try 55 minus about 20 degrees. I think the high for that day was 36. Oh my goodness it was cold. But we bundled up and went anyway. We probably saw a total of 18 other people there. There were only 18 other crazy people that day.

They warned us as we went in that not all of the animals were out due to the weather. Try MOST of the animals weren't out due to the weather. Oh well.

Bennett still got to hug a giraffe:


And make goofy pictures with Daddy.


This isn't a terribly exciting video, but it shows Mr. Cannon all bundled up in his stroller, wondering why in the world we were subjecting him to this.




We were able to thaw our fingers for a bit in the reptile house. There were lots of "nakes" in there. And "rabbits." (frogs).


I was really happy to find that the panda bears were out. They were "hawnry," so they were having a bamboo snack.


He became less interested in the "aneemals" and more interested in going to the big playground that I had told him was at the end of our walk (it was only mentioned to encourage a good attitude, aka to bribe him).


Can you tell I'm having to hold him up behind this thing? This was right before I busted his lip while trying to hold him up to the Mama kangaroo and put my head in the baby one. Oops. Bad idea.


We finally made it to the big playground. Bennett LOVED the big slide. We had a good time playing with him while Cannon snoozed in the stroller.



After the zoo, we stopped and had lunch at the Varsity. Yum.


We really had a good time, even if it wasn't exactly ideal. We'll definitely be going back when it's warmer. Bennett had his heart set on seeing a "wion," so we'll have to go back and let him see one this summer.