Saturday

J-cakes finally had a Saturday off so I decided it was time we headed to Nashville's zoo. We still have a current pass to Des Moines' zoo and it gets us into the Nashville zoo for free. Score! Besides, it was "Ice Day" which meant free ice cream, bounce houses, music and other things.

Ugh, we left at 10am and it was pretty humid. Definitely a shorts day even though my legs are albino white. (They never ever tan. Only the top half of my body tans.) Of course it was our duty as doting parents to lead our son the free ice cream.

After eating a little scoop, the Bear spotted the carousel. I gladly refused this ride. We once did a local photo shoot on a carousel and it was hell going round and round. J-cakes totally took over this one for me as I made the Bear request his dad. lol

By this time we had been to the zoo for nearly an hour and seen zero animals! So we began our trek and gawd was it crowded. I'm so use to doing things like this during the week, that I forget what it's like to face regular crowds. Like, oh yeah, everyone else has been working all week and they want to go out on Saturday too.

I'm not sure what I think of this zoo.It's on such a large plot of land. You did sooo much walking to get to a couple of animals. It was really nice and well kept, but the walking was hard. Nashville is very hilly, so we were constantly going uphill. Poor little Bear was trudging as hard as he could.We brought his little stroller, but he just had to be independent and walk,you know? He was definitely rewarded with sights of butt scratching monkeys, elephants and giraffes. This tickles the hell out of him since he calls all the animals by the names from Madagascar. Zebras are Martys and giraffes are Melmans.

The one part of the zoo J-cakes and I can't agree on is the bug/snake area. J-cakes is a wuss about the creepy crawlies. I'm a wuss too in real life, but I totally love the creepy crawly buildings at zoos. Where else can you see these things up close and personal? And the Bear was pumped about snakes! He always tries to scare me with a rubber snake, or he'll shriek when we're sharing a blanket,"Ah! A snake!" Friggin precious. He loooved the snakes and they had huge tanks of fish for him to bang on the glass saying "Hewo!" Nice.

Finally, the Bear was just completely wiped. We were wiped. It was butt sweat hot by this time and we called it a day. We totally missed a bunch more "Ice Day" stuff, but whatever.