Minnesota Zoo

On Wednesday, after John's speech session we went to Nana Jana's and picked her up for an afternoon at the zoo!
It was beautiful outside (high of 50 degrees!)  and lots of sun!!  We packed lunches of peanut butter sandwiches, avocados, raspberries, bananas and goldfish.  We had a little hiccup with our parking.  I had a *bright* idea to go to the back lot to park so we could get a closer spot.  We had the double stroller out and set up and John out of the car when a man who works for the MN Zoo told us that the back entrance was closed!  UGH.  Ok, back to the front lot- on to see the animals! :D
John riding in the stroller was short lived.  He wants to be independent! Sigh
We enjoyed the bears, fish, boars, camels, and ground hogs. 
I would have to say, his favorite animal was the sea otter.  He laughed and laughed as him and Nana stood at the glass watching Mr. Sea Otter swim back an forth entertaining everyone.  It was nice to be able to stop at the otters- usually I pass them because it is a hot spot.  In the past, there are always tons of people watching them, but today there was only a few high school students.
We go the camels and decided John was getting hungry and tired so we turned around.  We stopped at a bench and had our brown bag lunches.  De-lish!  John was in fact hungry!  He chowed down.
With the heat wave that we were having, there were puddles everywhere.  John jumped in the puddles and had to feel the water (with his mittens on!)
A great afternoon was had by all!  It was great to have Nana there because then John could run around and burn off some steam.  Stephen slept the entire time all snuggled up in the stroller with a blanket Great Grandma Jackie gave the boys. 
(That day, John didn't get a nap. At night, he slept from 7:30pm - 9AM!!!!  This is amazing!)