Reid Park Zoo

Since Wes went hunting today and the kids and I had a free Saturday together we decided to head to the Zoo here in Tucson.

All was well until I couldn't find the zoo and I never thought to look at a map (I had driven past Zoo signs before and figured it would be easy to find.)

Anyways, you know how guys stereotypically hate to ask for directions?

I'm obviously not a guy and happen not to mind at all saving minutes of wasted time in my life avoiding driving around looking for a some place.

So in hopes of curing Jared of this "guy" thing before it became an issue, as soon as I realized I probably wouldn't find the Zoo on my own anytime soon, I stopped and asked an elderly couple for directions.

Upon receiving the directions I rolled up the car window and immediately said, "See guys, that's how it's done. If you get lost when you are older, you just find someone nice looking and ask for directions!"

Jared immediately responded with, "Ha! When I get older, I'm just going to look up on the computer the place and print the map and directions."

Whatever. He is right, I should have printed the directions, Wes would have said the same thing.

But what's wrong with asking for directions?

The Zoo was a surprise. I figured it would be lame since people always say you can go through it in about an hour. I have been to many Zoos. I happen to love them but this is on the top favorite list.

Reasons:

Mostly large walking (stroller) paths.

Animals are so close you could almost touch them.

There are kid friendly things to do at almost every turn

Peacocks still roam free (Jared and Novalee came home with a feather. [No they didn't pluck it from the bird])

You can see all the zoo in about two hours if your part of my family

Admission is reasonable

Here are some of the photos from today.

The poor quality is because they are from my cell phone.

They were preparing for the Zoo program tonight, so we got to see all the cool Halloween Decorations.

Novalee was very excited to see Ariel since that is what she is going to be this Halloween.

"So Cool!"- Jared

See? The animals are so close!

ROUS's too bad Wesley wasn't there to fight them off. :)

They're all cracked up.

And Sadie, I'm not sure if she enjoyed the Zoo. She did smile when we were looking at the Mayan Tigers but it might have been because I was holding her...