Picnic, Zoo, Swim

We started our day with a picnic in the park.

Definitely something we don't do enough.  It's funny how tasty your homemade lunch is when you are sharing it with these adorable little creatures.  We could tell it was going to be a hot day but the temperature during our lunch was perfect.  Warm but not humid and as long as we stayed in the shade it was comfortable.

After lunch we walked over to the zoo.

We started with the Flamingos and ducks, made our way to the turtle, seal, penguins and fish.

We made our next stop at the Polar Bear, hit up the other hoofed animals, checked out the tiger and lion and then finished up with the giraffes, zebra, ostrich and of course the monkeys.

The Como Zoo just opened a new Gorilla Forest exhibit.  This new exhibit brings you up close and personal with the gorillas- it is pretty cool.  We were way to hot and sweaty to sit and spend the kind of time I would have liked to there but good news is that we live close and this won't be the last time we are there.

I need to head over there during the week someday on my lunch when the kids are back to school.

After our zoo trip we went back to Kari's for a swim.

The girls and I are sleeping over there tonight since she is watching the girls for me tomorrow while I have to work.  Made more sense than waking up to drive across the city to drop off and then back half way to work.  It didn't take the kids long to get their suits on and head out to the pool.

Mom, Tom, Grandma and Bob came over and were able to sit out at the pool with Kari and visit while the kids, Kim and I went swimming.  

Some fun pictures taken with my new underwater camera!