Phoenix Zoo!

Last Wednesday night we drove up to Phoenix and stayed two nights in a hotel.  On Thursday we went to the Phoenix Zoo and on Friday we went to the Temple.  We had a lot of fun.  We stayed in a really nice hotel (Quality Inn and Suites in Mesa) that was still reasonably priced(we got a good military discount).  It had a living room with a kitchen and a separate bedroom.  The couch pulled out into a bed and the boys really liked that.  They slept there.  Plus there were two tvs and it had a pool and hot tub.  The continental breakfast was really good as well.  

Thursday we got up, got ready, ate breakfast, and then the boys went swimming in the hot tub. Then we went to the Phoenix Zoo. It was a lot of fun. The weather was in the 80's so it wasn't too hot. The Zoo was pretty big and we were tired by mid afternoon so we didn't see everything. We did take the train tour though and I enjoyed that. The kids had a blast. I was sad that Rilla missed the petting zoo because she was napping. She would have enjoyed that. If we ever go again we will have to do that first.

They loved the carousel. Walter wouldn't go on the camel ride.  Jem loved it. Rilla liked running around a little too much. She had to be in the stroller quite a bit or we wouldn't have seen as much as we did. She seemed to always want to run the way we already came instead of the direction we were going. There are lots more pictures of the zoo that I will put in April's slideshow that I will work on this week.