A Trip to the Zoo

Today we visited the Como Park Zoo & Conservatory. It’s a smallish, local zoo that is perfect for our boys. And with covid state restrictions, the capacity is limited and we can move and explore at our own pace.

We told Cooper yesterday that we were going.

He woke up at 2:45 am this morning ready to go. Thankfully, he was ok with setting a countdown timer for our departure time of 1:15 pm. He also used his voice to say Z-O-O about a thousand times.

By noon he waiting at the front door. Jacket and shoes on. I’ve never seen him so excited to go somewhere.

The visit was as close to perfect as a chaotic family like ours can get.

Cooper adored the animals and sat before each one. His favorites were the zebra and penguins.

Harbie, our youngest, loved the turtles. He tried to climb in multiple tanks. He even managed to throw his monster truck to the tiger and shed a few tears when he learned Grandpa couldn’t fish him out. A life lesson was learned.

Cooper spent much of his time taking photos of his animal friends and waving to them.

We had so much fun.

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