Today we visited the zoo. We were planning to go on our own, but I called my girlfriend and she was heading to the zoo too so we decided to meet up. We purchased our zoo pass for the year ($55 for a family pass), but we visit the zoo often and also go to other more expensive zoos, so it ends up paying for itself within a few visits.
Do you see anyone else in the picture? The tiger is in the far left, and the crazy lady with the camera is dead center. The kids loved seeing the tiger!
Ethan’s best buddy, Alexis!
Emily’s favorite exhibit was the monkeys. She loved making monkey sounds at them. Say, “Cheese!”
Taking time for a quick pose on the turtle.
We packed a lunch to save some money and ate at the park. I had some leftover Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad that made the perfect lunch. The kids enjoyed some yummy peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, apples, and crackers.
The rest of the day I plan to catch up on laundry and getting the house back in order since I was away. If you are looking for some fun things to do with the kids today, check out my post, “Creative Toy Replacements” featured on Blissfully Domestic!
Sound Off: Do you purchase a family pass to any area attractions?
My boys play on that turtle every time we go. We are going tomorrow.
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hey, amy! we’re loving the weather, too. we went to the park today and i hope to get to the zoo later this week. we have a pass to the cincinnati zoo, and it was money well spent. we love going and we always pack our lunches to save money, too.
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We get an annual pass to the LA Arboretum, and my kids adore it (we went today). As urban as it is here in SoCal, it is nice for them to go to a place to run wild and find little critters and things. Plus you get reciprocal membership to more than 100 botanical gardens in the country, so when we are somewhere else we try to check out their gardens (for free). It’s been great!
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We get a zoo membership (as a birthday gift from my mom, so it’s free for us), too. And we just used ours this weekend, too. I haven’t tried yet, but our library also has a program where you can check out museum passes (good for so many tickets) from the library.
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Sounds like a fun day at the zoo – it’s always fun for us to go with a friend.
We don’t purchase family passes to anything, because we live so far from any of the attractions. That’s about the only thing I miss with living in the “country”.
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