A bunch of animals

On Saturday we drove down to Idaho Falls and met up with Todd's parents and Todd's brother Thomas as the city zoo. Reese has been to this zoo before but that was over a year ago so we were excited to see how she would react this time since she was to an age where she would know what was going on. She was probably more excited to see Grandma, Grandpa and Thomas than she was about the zoo. It's a smaller zoo but still really nice. It has lots of trees so you stay pretty cool throughout the entire park. However, Reese was still able to see Lions, Tigers and Bears - oh my! Also, lots of monkeys, zebras, otters, lots of birds, and many others.

Reese discovered binoculars on our tour and LOVED them. They had a pair set up in the African exhibit to look at a bunch of different birds (and might I mention these birds made the crazy noises)!!

Reese and Grandpa riding a tiger. The real tiger was sleeping so this was probably just as cool.

Reese and the boys checking out the big lion.

"Look Grandma!" Checking out the Llamas.

Probably one of Reese's favorite animals in the zoo. Chickens!

After we made it through the zoo we had some lunch in the nearby park. Reese has always like chicken nuggets, but she LOVED fried chicken. Finger lickin' good.

"Where did my chicken go?" She would eat every speck of chicken til she got down to the bone.

Ok I've blogged before about how Reese is deathly afraid of playing on the playground equipment. However, this day she was a wild woman! Climbing and sliding like a big girl.

After our adventure at the zoo and the park. Reese went to stay with Grandma and Grandpa for the weekend so Todd and I could actually have a date night and so I could get caught up on my spring cleaning. Todd and I went to Angels and Demons later that afternoon, had a nice dinner at Olive Garden, and went to another movie Star Trek. We were making up for lost time by going to 2 movies. It's one of our favorite things to do and we just don't get to do it very often. By the way loved both movies. Dinner was good too... I must admit Olive Garden isn't my favorite but I do love the Zuppa Toscana (the spicy sausage soup). I don't understand all the hype for the place... I ordered the Chicken Alfredo and it was pretty bland. Anyways the soup and bread sticks made up for the poor pasta. So we've had a very nice weekend.