So anyway, the zoo was great. The kids all seemed to have a good time. Shey seemed to know quite a bit about it. They had passes a year ago and went often. Jack quickly found the train and was completely captivated by it. For a while everything was about the train. We were at an animal show, he was down right in front with a bunch of kids just before the show. I heard the train coming, looked down and Jack was gone. Apparently he heard the train coming before I did. I found him standing on a retaining wall off to the side of the theater watching the train. When I went to get him he knew that the train had a single piston for the driving wheel and air brakes on the diesel locomotive. It was shaped like a steam engine but was really diesel. Anyway, he had the train on top of his mind for most of the day. As we made our way back towards the gate he was all about going on the train but the line for the train was outrageous so I had to persuade him otherwise. That was when the Alpine Slide came into play and a promise that we would come back to the zoo and we would ride the train first rather then at the end. He decided that would work.
It was a fun little zoo. We just missed the opening of a new polar bear exhibit. It opens on June 1st so it was literally days. We did manage to sneak a peak at the polar bear. It was a good distance away but while looking at the habitat they will have him in we saw him in the distance kind of swaying a bit and then it turned around and walked out of view. That should be a fun addition.
So I don't have many pictures of this outing. My phone was dead and I only got a pic of Jack by an elephant statue with it then I got a pic of all the kids with my other camera but I don't have my cord handy to upload the pics to the blog. This is a shame because I have some additional footage of us at the Alpine Slide in Park City. Anyway, here is the one pic I have of the zoo.
So the Alpine Slide. We said our goodbye's to Laura, Nigel, Shey and Donny and made out way up to Park City. It really was a beautiful day out and Park City was beautiful. The kids got a kick out of seeing the ski jumps on the side of the mountain that were used in the Olympics 10 years ago. That was pretty cool to see. We got into the town and I couldn't tell if the lifts were going from where we were parked so we walked up. The large line of people waiting kind of gave it away and I was excited for the kids to get to go. We ended up waiting in line for a while, in all I think we were there for 2 hours - arrival to departure. The kids liked the lift ride up and loved the sled ride down. Andy had to ride with me and he really wanted to control it. I let him take the controls for the most part and I tried to work the camera. Andy was a wild man on the throttle. We were moving, left Jack in our dust so I slowed down the sled. We ended up leaving him in our dust a second time after we waited for him to catch up and got some footage of him. He loved it though. Natty loved it too. They all wanted to go again. Perhaps later this summer before school starts. I am not sure.
Both the Zoo and the Slide were hits. That was great, a lot of fun. I am glad we were able to go up this weekend and enjoy a couple of fun days together. I do have to say we had a fun ride home. We came zipping out of Scipio with some AC/DC Back In Black rocking on the stereo. That was a fun one to drive to. We were banging our heads to the beat and laughing pretty good. Way to go DJ Natty Sue. We'll have to do it again.
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