ANIMALS

Last Friday, Lizette and I went to the Santa Barbara zoo with Luke, Baby Charlie, and Cristin. It was Lizette's last chance to go somewhere and get in for FREE - because she is still under two. Lizette loves Luke and baby Charlie, but above all she LOVES anything to do with ANIMALS. She gets so excited. She can tell you what all the animals say or do.

The Santa Barbara zoo isn't as big as the San Diego zoo, but it is perfect for a toddler. Lizette loved seeing the birds, turtles, elephants, lions, giraffes, monkeys, and the list could go on and on. The Santa Barbara zoo also has a little area for kids to run around. She loved getting inside the ceramic egg and saying, "Cheese" for the camera. She loved roaring at the lions and looking at the giraffes and trying to stretch her neck as far as it would go. She was excited to see the gorilla too. She would beat on her chest making gorilla sounds. She also loved being around Luke, and there wasn't as much fighting as I thought there was going to be. Except for those rides that you would see a lot in front of grocery stores that go up and down. They got very possessive over them. Cristin said that we should just take them to Chuck E Cheese if that is all that they want to play with.

We were also so lucky that we got to ride the train that goes around the park for FREE. Awesome, I know. Lizette loves trains. We got to see the lions and the giraffe really close up. When we saw the lion she started roaring then all the kids starting roaring, it was too funny. Over all it was great weather, we got to see all the animals we wanted, and we got to hang out with Luke and baby Charlie.

The rest of the day I kept asking Lizette about the zoo. I would ask her what animals we saw at the zoo, and she would say, "Luke".