What a perfect day..

We had a field trip today with Oscar's preschool class...so we kept Gordon home and let Grandma Ward keep Maggie so we could go sans stroller!

(yes I did make my barely 3 year old hoof it all day...she was a CHAMP, and she was asleep about 6 seconds after I buckled her in her car-seat)

IT WAS AWESOME!!

We began the day with a trip to Fairytale Town, a Sacramento Classic...Steve remembers playing there when he was little...

**We had not even gotten in when Ellie started complaining that she was hot....luckily she had on a little under tee/tank other wise she would have been "strappy"...no mom I didn't put her in a tank top!

Argh Pirates

King Arthur's Castle was obviously a big hit with my Knight's and Princess!
We just read a whole book on King Arthur so they were having so much fun reliving the tales about each of the different Knights


...probably the cutest trash can on the planet...

Old MacDonal's Farm had a little petting zoo...

Ellie chickened out of Old Macdonald's Hay Loft Slide!

We live relatively close to an Indian Reservation/Casino so Gordon is pretty into Indian stuff these days!

Owl's tree house

(with big metal slide out the front side...the really fast kind...E declined again!)

Cinderella's Carriage was fun...even the boys had stuff to do....

Ellie LOVED being in the carriage!

All & all Fairytale Town was AWESOME...the kids had so much fun...it is a place you could go just to let them have fun with their imaginations while you sit back and supervise...Gordon is going to love having a real Tee-Pee to hang out in when he's on his Indian kick and a Castle or a Pirate ship or a huge Forest/Castle play set in Sherwood's Forest....we're reading Robin Hood next! I'm a fan of Fairytale Town!

Lunch Break and then across the street to the Sacramento Zoo....I love zoos....I never tire of looking at the animals. I always think about what a good animal trainer I would be, but then I have to remember that I don't really even like dogs soooo...really? But I do really want to pet a real grown Tiger...who could resist that right?

It was especially fun to see Gordon reading all the signs and retelling the highlights...Oscar thought Gordon was SO smart, he kept saying "How do you know this?!"


the kids were very interested in "Zaboomafoo" this zoo had quite an extensive Lemur collection...freakly lookin' animals, Lemurs...


I do love the zoo Carousels!


Compare these carousel pictures to ones taken just a year ago....


I love the educational shows they put on at zoos such...this one has a hands on time afterwards that was really great...once the crowd dispersed...

...a skink of some sort...

...some relative of a shrew but looks more like a hedgehog...but not a hedgehog...cute in a rodenty way...the kids loved watching it run around...

The cutest chinese dwarf alligator! We did not get to touch this ...it was in the reptile house!
It was so darling, it's snout is so short and it had such great teeth...dad needs one of these for his tank!

Tired little chickens