A Trip to the Zoo

I was trying to decide the best way to write about our summer adventures, and I decided to separate it into several different blogs. I figure it will be easier for people to sift through that way too. Our really long trip to/from Seattle was only a two week ordeal, but we were gone from home for five weeks, so it was really nice to get home. I had TONS of fun, but now I get to relax a bit (well, after I get my huge "to-do" list completed anyway...).

I really should have written this blog when I was at my mom's last month, but I didn't think of it. Before heading to Wyoming, we stopped at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City where we met up with my sister and her family. Then we stayed one night with her and went to the Ogden Tree House Museum the next day before actually driving to Rawlins. Now all of that seems so long ago, but here's a few cute pictures anyway. The first one is of Morgan with some of the giraffes.

And here are my girls with an elephant.
And finally, here's Brynne with a white alligator. Aren't you so glad I was here to identify all the animals for you! :)
Once we got to Rawlins, we were able to do some relaxing. The one adventure we did have was going on a one-night camp out to Martin's Cove with my parent's ward from church. It was really, really, really windy that night but the girls and I opted to sleep in the tent anyway. Thankfully the girls slept okay, but I hardly slept at all with the flapping of the tent walls. I kept waiting to blow away. The next morning I woke up to discover a tent that had actually started to come unstaked. There were three people in it and it was half blown over. I still can't figure out how they all stayed asleep in there... Anyway, I'm bummed we forgot a camera, but it was a fun time.

We were there for about three weeks before the real adventure began...

P.S. You'll have to click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page to see the rest of the posts about our vacation. :)