A very British weekend- Part 1

Let me begin with our trip to the London Zoo on Saturday.  Mind you, this trip got off to a shaky start.  Mark left early in the morning to get his haircut and within minutes after he left, the lovely road pavers shut our road down.  That means there was no way (to our newbie knowledge) for him to get home in any kind of straightforward way.  So I pulled the gang together, packed our gear for the day and very carefully, with not really having any idea of where I was going tried to find him.  It took some finagling and a lot of time but we found him.  How do they just shut down a major road on a Saturday morning?!?  I'm assuming that everyone else knew how to navigate around this road block but us.

Back to the London Zoo.  We decided to be brave and drive into London.  It was really quite painless, maybe a 45 minute drive and no congestion fee on the weekend.  Needless to say, we were pretty proud of ourselves.

They had a great gorilla exhibit and the boys enjoyed seeing them interact with each other.  

Watching the gorilla try to pull a sweet potato through the cage.  Took a bit of time.

A quick bite to eat.  We are now pros at packing our lunches!

And yes, what zoo wouldn't be complete with out a bouncy house castle and a merry-go-round? Everywhere. We. Go.

The giraffes were beautiful. Henry said that they were his favorite.

We gave in to the merry-go-round. A million horses to pick from and they chose the dragon seat.

Officially done with the zoo.

We had such a great day and if you notice, it was sunny!