roo at the zoo... two

back to the zoo we went, to rectify past face-painting debacles and to make use of the good friday day off from school. unfortunately most of the state of new jersey had the same idea. i did not take pictures of many animals, seeing as how we were just there a few weeks ago and i took a lot of pics then. i did, however, take a lot of photos of the facepainting. i am sorry about that.

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we started at the lorax loft, since it wasn't open on our last visit. it really wasn't all that exciting, but Q was infatuated with the purple stairs.

then we did face-painting before the line got out of hand. Q stuck with his weeks-predetermined choice of spiderman. caroline surprised us by choosing "cheetah" over significantly girlier choices like "butterfly" or "pink bunny". cheetah did match her (also self-chosen) outfit, so maybe she had a plan all along.

checking it out. Q noted to himself, "i look awesome!"

i think the peacocks and the flamingos are my favorite zoo animals. i guess i like brightly-colored birds.

a mommy duck and her 11 (!!) ducklings also live in flamingoville

someone needs to tell this giraffe that he has a long neck so that he can eat leaves on tall trees and that he doesn't need to strain to grab a few dandelions wedged between some rocks.

serious spiderman eating snacks

caroline deemed herself a jaguar and kept saying, "i'm a jaguar! i'm a jaguar! rawr! rawr! rawr!" she then proclaimed herself a jaguar princess, though i kept reminding her that she was actually a cheetah. we settled on cheeguar princess.

what every well-styled cheeguar princess needs - shades

we also rode the zoo train. Q thought it was super-cool, even though it bothered him that there weren't any tracks