Yup, another zoo

We had time for one last trip to Staten Island and after dragging the boys and our moms to Home Goods, Ikea and Costco we figured we owed them something fun. So we headed to our favorite New York past time! The zoo! I’m sure you all haven’t seen enough animal pictures from our tour of New York zoos so here you go. You’re welcome. Here’s a llama.

It had been a long time since I had been to this zoo. Randy and I had gone on one of our first dates back in 2005, 10 years ago! It was a lot better than I remembered, or maybe it was because the audience had lower standards. It was the perfect size for us and had an amazing petting zoo.

Kids were allowed inside the corral to feed and pet the animals. Adam insisted he was ok going in alone.

And of course he was. He sat and petted this goat for a good 20 minutes.

Malcolm got into it too. At first he was a little nervous but after he got the hang of it he loved feeding the llamas (not so much the more aggressive goats).

In case you’re wondering, Malcolm couldn’t go into the petting area because we forgot his shoes…it may seem like this happens to us often but it really doesn’t. The boys have started climbing into the stroller and by the time we leave 15 minutes later when I’ve finally packed up the fruit, snacks, waters, diapers, wipes and am out the door I then realize too late that one or both have no shoes. This was definitely the worst (and last up to now) time. It felt more intense since we actually crossed into a whole other borough and had a whole day out at the zoo with a shoeless toddler. But besides the petting zoo the rest of the time we just let Malcolm run around barefoot and he was perfectly content.