Toledo

On Memorial Day, we went to the Toledo Zoo.  It is about a 2 hour drive from our home and the kids had no idea where we were going until we arrived.  It was awesome!  I don't have many pictures (but lots of videos) to document our day, but here are a couple.

I put Hannah on the carousel and she giggled every time her horse went up.  It was very cute.

As you can guess by the glistening faces, it was a very hot day!  It was in the mid to upper 90s, but we still had a lot of fun.  Many of the displays and enclosures were shaded so we weren't very uncomfortable.

Speaking of enclosures, they were beautiful (especially the hippos and the elephants).  The kids' area was great!  There was a "house" with a pets display with birds and guinea pigs (to hold).  The kids' area also had a water play area, and areas to watch bees and leaf-cutter ants.

We'd recommend this zoo to anyone in the area and are glad that our friends D&C recommended it to us!

Here are the kids sitting in front of the otter pool.

Random thing:  We took a different route on our drive home and drove through Jackson.  The fundraiser coupon book from Abby's preschool has several coupons for Jackson area establishments that we never use so we decided to get dinner there with our coupon book.  We contributed less than $3.50 to the Jackson economy and got 2 pizzas and 2 good size ice cream sundaes from 3 different restaurants.  Dinner success!