Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Got up and everyone got dressed and ready for today. We decided on IHOP for breakfast. Ty and Travis looked it up in the phone book and off we went....and we got lost. We did numerous U-turns, drove around...and finally found it clear on the other end of town. It was after lunch time when we finished breakfast. So, then we decide to go to Cheyenne Mountain zoo. And it is way back on the side of town we started out on. And guess what? We passed an IHOP out there! :)


Anyway, the zoo was really great. http://cmzoo.org/ You could feed the giraffes and stand on a platform level to their heads. They had a tram you could ride all around the park. They had a train for Addie to ride, and a merry-go-round (which she SCREAMED when Ty put her on, but he rode it with her anyway). We saw a moose and grizzly bears and all kinds of things...it was a really cool zoo. They had a ski lift like ride that you could get on and go up the mountain. We did not get to do that because it started raining and they closed it down. That was a bummer. And we found out that once you pay to ride it ($5), you can ride it as much as you want. Would have been great to get on and take pictures. Unfortunately, just before we left, my camera broke. My high dollar camera that I thought would be the last one I would ever have to buy...the shutter broke. I was devestated.


Addie said her favorite part of the zoo was the train ride. Which she talked about incessantly while we were there. like, every 5 minutes (i wanna ride the train...) I liked watching the grizzly bears....there were behind glass and there was a pond that they were actually playing in the water...there were 2 and they were "fighting." Got 1 good photo of a close-up of its head...but the rest not so good because they were through a dirty glass.