Cameron Park Zoo

One of the perks of living in the same town as your sister-in-law and not going to school or having a job yet is that you get to spend a lot of quality time with extended family.  Danny and I did a lot of stuff last fall with their family, and I was able to really get to know them better.  I even got to go with her and her kids on outings like school field trips (soooo many five year olds!) and play groups.  One tuesday when Danny was in class all day, I got to join his sister and her youngest son on a play group trip to Waco's Cameron Park Zoo.  I've been to this particular zoo before not too long ago with my dad and remembered it being a nice zoo, so I tagged along to get out of the house and help be an extra adult chaperone.  It's definitely an eye opener being around moms and little kids, and sometimes it gets a little tedious like when they want to watch the turtles for half an hour but get bored with the lions after ten seconds, but it's fun to watch how excited they all were at something as simple as a trip to the zoo.

One other great thing about living close to family?  Danny's sister is a total shutterbug, and let's me have copies of all the great pics she takes ... granted, these pictures here represent about 3% of the pictures she actually took of this event, haha.  Isn't digital photography great?

Danny's nephew

some of the other kids from the playgroup

"Look!! A turtle! a turtle!" ... and this was just in the pond near the entrance...

... more turtles!

(aren't her curls so precious? *squeal!* :)

"... who cares about lions, I wanna see the turtles!" (didn't actually say that, but his expression seemed that way)