N8 and I have tried to plan a fun family outing/vacation for us over the last couple of years during Spring Break. Nothing huge or far, but hopefully fun! This year we debated a few different ideas: San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Legoland & the LA Zoo. After looking at pricing/hotels/etc we decided on the LA Zoo. And as it turns out we have great friends that had free passes through their membership! So we got into the zoo FREE!!!
We drove down on Wednesday morning and must have hit the zoo at the perfect time. At many of the exhibits the animals we out and about! Here are some of my favorite shots from the day:
The Flamingos
The Rhino
The Gorilla!
And the rest bench
That evening we took the kids to TGI Friday's for dinner. I asked them what their favorite animal of the day was. Emma loved the meerkats, Bud loved the different cats & the wild african dog, Mo loved the all the different monkeys.
After dinner N8 had scoped out a awesome treat for us. It was a place called Yogurt Zone (they don't have a website!). They have locations in Woodland Hills, Encino & Porter Ranch. There are places like this popping up all over. It's a self serve frozen yogurt shop. Lots of yogurt flavors, lots of topping and you pay by the weight! The kids LOVED it!
On Thursday morning we were off to IKEA! We're still figuring out how we are going rearrange the kiddos, but we did know of a few things we needed. Plus the kids love playing while we shop!
After that we headed to the mall to a surprise! They knew we were going to the zoo but we had another fun thing planned. Especially after we got into the zoo for free. We took the kids to Build-A-Bear! It was so much fun. Luckily the nice employee let us know that there was even a coupon at the Easter Bunny in the mall!
So the each picked their "bear"-Mo is actually the only one that got a bear. Emma got a cat and Bud got a dog! Then it was off to stuffing, washing and dressing! When we got to the outfits we just could not resist. Bud ended up with an Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit (with a light saber!), Emma got Cinderella and Mo got a cute t-shirt!
Now it's time to get put back together and ready to finish out the school year strong!!
Happy Spring Everyone!
We drove down on Wednesday morning and must have hit the zoo at the perfect time. At many of the exhibits the animals we out and about! Here are some of my favorite shots from the day:
The Flamingos
The Rhino
The Gorilla!
And the rest bench
That evening we took the kids to TGI Friday's for dinner. I asked them what their favorite animal of the day was. Emma loved the meerkats, Bud loved the different cats & the wild african dog, Mo loved the all the different monkeys.
After dinner N8 had scoped out a awesome treat for us. It was a place called Yogurt Zone (they don't have a website!). They have locations in Woodland Hills, Encino & Porter Ranch. There are places like this popping up all over. It's a self serve frozen yogurt shop. Lots of yogurt flavors, lots of topping and you pay by the weight! The kids LOVED it!
On Thursday morning we were off to IKEA! We're still figuring out how we are going rearrange the kiddos, but we did know of a few things we needed. Plus the kids love playing while we shop!
After that we headed to the mall to a surprise! They knew we were going to the zoo but we had another fun thing planned. Especially after we got into the zoo for free. We took the kids to Build-A-Bear! It was so much fun. Luckily the nice employee let us know that there was even a coupon at the Easter Bunny in the mall!
So the each picked their "bear"-Mo is actually the only one that got a bear. Emma got a cat and Bud got a dog! Then it was off to stuffing, washing and dressing! When we got to the outfits we just could not resist. Bud ended up with an Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit (with a light saber!), Emma got Cinderella and Mo got a cute t-shirt!
Now it's time to get put back together and ready to finish out the school year strong!!
Happy Spring Everyone!
5 comments:
How fun! We could go anywhere due to baby (7 more weeks!), but I hope to start doing something next year!
Oh man, what a fun spring break!
I'm super jealous of everything about this trip! How much fun can you have in one trip?!
Sounds like a great trip! You guys know how to have so much fun! I bet the kids are really loving their "bears"!
Glad you all had such fun!
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