My Day at the Zoo

For my birthday, we headed out the door for a day at the Ueno Zoo, which is right outside of Tokyo. We met the Benefield family at the gate at 8:00am, but Caleb had been sitting in the car ready to go at 7:30. He kept yelling at me, "come on mom, let's go ride on the train" all morning while we were getting ready.

The weather was PERFECT!

I tried to get Caleb to give the peace sign, but he got upset with me and said, "I'm not two mommy, I three!" Hence why he's holding up three fingers.....he's so smart.

Caleb took the map and became our navigator, he's so like his dad.

The first animal we met was an elephant.

And then some sea lions.

They were splashing and jumping and chasing each other. It was really fun to watch them.

And then there was this....what is this? It looks like an enormous rodent. Caleb kept saying, "Shh, he's sleeping", but it wasn't sleeping. Oh no, it was watching us. Kinda freaked me out....

And lastly, we came upon these crazy monkeys. The one of the left kinda looks a little like me.......CRAZY!!

Fun was had by all. It was a great day to go to the zoo and an awesome day for a birthday.

We didn't walk back into our house till almost 6:30pm. Every ounce of my body was exhausted.

FYI: (In case you're wondering why Shawn isn't in any of these pictures....he was gone)