Cleveland Zoo

Our very chilly lunch break.

Audrey showing off her photography skills.


The whole gang!

A highlight in March was when Brad, Steph and the boys came for a visit. Casey and Audrey were counting down the days. Finally the day did arrive. We had planned to go to the Cleveland Zoo since the boys are all really into animals. The last time we were there we didn't get time to go through the rain forest so we had decided that even if it wasn't a nice day we could still go see some animals in there. We woke up and thought it was a beautiful day but after driving up to Cleveland we realized that it was much colder up by the lake than it was at home. We ended up pulling hats, gloves, and whatever winter wear we could find out of our vans. We went to the rainforest first waiting for it to warm up. We ate lunch about 1 and were shivering as we did so. After eating the sun was out but still very chilly. Since we were already there we thought we might as well do some of the zoo. As long as we stayed moving it wasn't too bad. We even walked all the way up to the primate building which seems like walking about 2 miles uphill. The kids did surprisingly well...even Chelsea. Seeing how she didnt' take a nap she was really very happy running around until we left the zoo at about 4:30. Needless to say, all the fresh air and walking had really worn her out. She was asleep before we were even out of the parking lot!