Monkeying Around!

Sat morning, Nick & I went w/ his family down to Des Moines to the Blank Park Zoo! We had a really good time! (I haven't been to a zoo in probably 15 years!) They had a lot of adorable animals & I took A TON of pictures! (Big surprise right!?!) My favorites were the sea horses, the jellyfish, & the giraffes! I also liked the monkeys! Little G sure had some fun! He was running around like a crazy boy checking everything out! Nick had him up on his shoulders so I told him that he was tall like a giraffe so he then said to Nick's sister, "Mom! I'm giraffein Nick!". We got a good laugh out of that one! :D

(There was an Emperor Scorpian in there but he was hiding.)

(LOOK! I found NEMO!)

(Duese Bigalow fish! :)

(Little G said, " BIG FISH! BIG FISH!")

It was also Nick's step-dad Gary's birthday! His daughter Amy was going to move up to Alaska but later decided to just go up & visit a friend instead. No one told Gary this so she showed up at the zoo to surprise him! He had no idea & I'm sure it made his day!

(You can't really see but he had a look on his face like WHAT??)

Now on to more zoo pics.....

(You otter know that they are pretty cute! Snicker snicker! I know I'm funny!)

(Black Swans! So-> pretty! Black is my color!)

(Where's Little G??)

(What you lookin at??)

(Nick & his sis.)

(It looked like they were giving eachother eskimo kisses! Awwwww!)

(This was the first time I used the timer on my camera. Thanks to a garbage can we got a pretty decent pic.)

(Little G is giraffein nick!)

There was also a concert going on at the zoo which was free w/ your zoo admission. It was Billy Currington who, I guess, is a popular country singer but I honestly had never heard of him before. It was all good though! We just hung out on the grass & chilled. It was hot in that afternoon sun! Nick & I had to buy a couple cold ones to cool us down! ;)

(Nick & Little G being silly!)

(See ya Billy!)

**Carrie Underwood & Little Big Town pics to come.....**

P.S. It's my dad's birthday today so...**HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!** :D (He doesn't look at this thing but I thought I would throw that out there anyway! ;)