Zoo hoo!!!

Our Playgroup decided to take a trip to the zoo this week before it gets too hot to do anything this outdoorsy. We managed to meet up for an early start at 10am so we could maximize the day - which was perfect considering the fact that by noon most of the kids were ready to sit in their strollers and just roll past the animals on the descent to the exit... I think we moms would've taken a ride too. But that is the beauty of where we live and the Taipei Zoo (and this group of friends) - we can go for as long/short as we like because it is only a 40minute MRT ride away and costs less than US$5 to enter - ZOOHOO!!! Thanks, ladies, for a fun day out!!! The kids slept like logs when we got home!

Here the clan steadies themselves for the day/hours ahead. Notice Hunter has already tucked into his lunch and Helena has already ditched her hat!!

Being the zoo veterans we are, we had a strategy for this mid-week trip. First, we took the train to the top of the zoo to work our way downhill, thereby cutting out the treacherous walk up past the African animals that we normally get stuck at because we're too tired and hot to keep going...

and though not really any of our personal favorites, we decided to hang out in the "Frog House" because a) the boys don't mind looking at lizards, tortoises and frogs; and b) it has air-conditioning. You can easily guess where our other major stop landed us... yep, the Penguins!!!

He's not aware of the air-con... thus the grizzly face!