Fall Trip to the Zoo!

Brandon's day care was closed the first Friday of October and so I took the entire day off from work to watch him (I usually work half days on Fridays and go in Friday afternoon).  We have had one of the nicest falls I have ever seen in Portland this year.  It has not rained since like July and it has been sunny and beautiful each day.  The temperatures have been in the high 70s to low 80s.  I wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather we are having (I knew it would not last long) and so I took Brandon to the Zoo.  We actually became zoo members so we could go back as many times as we want.  Before we went to the zoo Brandon was playing around the house.  He loves to get into our shoe closet and try on our shoes.  He is actually quite balanced even with wearing my high heeled sandals!

Playing with mommy's shoes 

My Brandon how tall you are!

We got to the zoo around 10:00 AM and the weather was warm and there was not that many people because it was a week day.  Brandon had a lot more fun looking at the animals this time around.  He loved the penguins and  ran around watching them for about 20 minutes.  He also loved the monkeys, hippos and ducks.  The animals were more awake this time and a lot of them were getting fed.  We also saw the lions which made Brandon excited since he is going to be a lion for Halloween this year.  Brandon loves the grass area near the zoo theatre and the elephants.  He ran around the grass for quite a while and joined in playing tag with some of the kids on the grass.  We ended up staying for almost 3 hours and then Brandon took a really great afternoon nap.  It was a perfect trip!

Watching the ducks

Having fun watching the ducks

Being silly 

The polars bears were out!

Beautiful fall leaves

Swinging like a monkey!

Brandon and the hippos behind him to the right

Playing on the grass!