A Day at the Zoo

One of the benefits of living in Arizona, is that you can take your grandchildren to the zoo in January. It was beautiful today, so Linda, Sara and I loaded up Rylee, Maddie and Peyton and had a great day at the Phoenix Zoo.

The goats at the petting zoo must be fed a special mixture of feed and Xanax, because they lay there and let all these children brush them. Peyton made sure he pet every single one of them.
All three children immediately ran over to the tractor and climbed aboard. I think they are drawn to farm implements because their grandparents came from Kansas......??

Rylee and Peyton chose neighboring animals on the carousel. Rylee got the giraffe and Peyton the lion.

But the highlight of the day for all of us was the stingray pool. We had to go there two times before we could leave for the day. Even though she was hesitant at first, even Maddie got her hands in and touched one!

We had a great time seeing monkeys, elephants, giraffes, tortoise, flamingos, iguanas and more. We all left tired and happy with our hands all sticky from cotton candy, the perfect day!