one HOT day at the ZOO

Today we spent a few hours at the Fort Worth Zoo! I'm really not sure what we were thinking ... or if we were thinking at all ... since it's the dead middle of summer ... and hot, Hot, HOT outside (temperatures in the high 90's - low 100's), but when my friend Chesley said she was taking her 3 kidos to the zoo on Friday & invited us to join her ... I said YES!   I knew it was going to be hot, but still everyone had a great time ...

This was Kendall's 1st visit to the Fort Worth Zoo ... although, this was not her 1st visit to a zoo (she visited the Dallas Zoo last August when she was only a few weeks old) ... it was her 1st time to actually see some animals in real life! We officially became Zoo Members & are now proud owners of a zoo pass, which has a lot of benefits, besides free admission & free parking anytime we want to go, for a year. I know we'll use it a lot this fall & spring ... all of our friends have one so this will be a fun play-date for Kendall & her little friends, too!

sweet little friends ... Kendall & Emerson Walton (10 mo)

Garrett Walton (consulting the map for us again), and
Cohen & Cage Collins ... apparently I did not get 1 picture of
these boys from the front, but they are all cutie-patooties! 

We saw all the main animals (monkeys, elephants, zebras, giraffes, tigers, rhinos) and then cooled off during lunch in the MOLA (the Museum of Living Art - reptiles, amphibians & more) ... we all enjoyed eating our lunch in front of a HUGE aquarium, complete with alligators, turtles & fish of all kinds swimming by us the whole time ... it was really cool AND we were all indoors in wonderful air conditioning! After lunch the Collins family had to leave, but the rest of us toured the MOLA building. I really don't like snakes (like, at all!), but they also have several huge aquariums that Kendall & I did enjoy, very much ... and MOLA is all indoors & air conditioned as well, so that makes it even better!  We were very thankful for this brand new exhibit!

our kids at MOLA ... Mich & Madeline, Kendall, and
Ansley, Garrett & Emerson

Kendall & Emerson checking out all the fish in one of the
many tanks inside MOLA ... definitely Kendall's favorite
animal at the zoo (and anywhere else, right now, for that matter)!

Mommy & Kendall ... apparently Kendall was done giving
out smiles by the time we took a picture together! ha!

Loving all the fish & reaching out to touch them ...  not that
great of picture with the flash on Kendall, but like the reflection 

Katherine & her sweet baby Madeline (7 months old)

After visiting MOLA, we all headed home ... we hit some ugly traffic on our way home & Kendall took a nap the whole time! We had a fun time hanging out with these 3 families and are looking forward to many more play-dates in the future!  (Hopefully I'll do a better job at taking more pictures next play-date ... I didn't do so great today & didn't even get one of Chesley, who got us all out to the zoo today!)