Zoo Day

Today's main event was the semi-famous Omaha Zoo.  We loaded up the kids in the double stroller and got there pretty early to ensure we'd have plenty of time before naps and to be done before it got too hot out.  We took lots of pictures of cool animals, but this blog is about pictures of our family, so if you want to see pictures of animals, you'll have to hold out hope that the vast internet might happen to have a zoo animal or two for you to see.  The zoo has a pretty good kids' area, where they have some "fossils" slightly buried in a giant pit of small gray rubber pellets, which allows kids (and, uh, maybe certain adults) to use shovels and brushes to find the fossils and clear away the "dirt" to expose them.  Joshua, though, was mostly interested in just moving the pellets into and out of the bucket.  They had a small petting zoo where Joshua briefly petted a goat before realizing there were lots of awesome rocks on the ground.  We then rode the carousel, which was zoo-themed.  Joshua enjoyed it for a bit, but was sort of bored by the end.  After going back to the hotel for naptime (for everyone), we spent some time in the hotel pool, which Clara really enjoyed.  Then we drove to an out-of-the-way Mexican restaurant (there are very few in Omaha) for a great meal where the wait staff fawned over our children, which is an occurrence we're getting used to.  It was a really busy but fun day, and we're looking forward to more fun tomorrow before we have to drive back home.