The Wilsons in Georgia: PawPaw and DeeDee

On Tuesday of Winter Break we headed to Paw Paw and Dee Dee's house for a visit. I worked while the girls played and had a welcome change of scenery since we had been working so many days with them home this winter. On Thursday afternoon PawPaw and DeeDee had appointments so I took the girls to the Montgomery Zoo. It's a really great zoo and we had a nice time. It sprinkled on us for about the first hour we were there and then it turned out really nice.

Their schools were in session so we practically had the whole zoo to ourselves. Their exhibits allowed you to get much closer looks at the animals than our zoo.

Right after the first picture was taken Emily ran towards me to go inside the bird cage and skidded across the cement. She hit hard and scraped her knees and chin and hands. I know it hurt and we caused quite a fuss in the zoo. A sweet family had their son run to the van to get band-aids and gave us several for her. Here she is bandaged up:

These pictures of the monkeys and the alligator is the part of the zoo I had growing up. It was a much smaller zoo back then and walking back thru this section brought back many memories of childhood trips to the zoo:

I wonder if this is the same alligator from when I was a kid. Looks like he hasn't moved from his spot in 30 years!

Loved the cat/lion/tiger exhibits where they were all so close. This leopard was pacing back and forth the whole time we were there and I think it was because she was telling us to back away from her cubs that were in the back of the exhibit: