Tiffany and I decided to take our kids on a road trip to Omaha to visit our sister out there while her husband was gone hunting. It was a 14 hour drive so we decided to break it up and got part away one day. We got in late the first night because of the weather that we had. The next morning we got to visit with our sister, Savanah, who is going to school were we stopped. We didn't get to spend much time with her because we wanted to get to Omaha before it was to late. It was fun to get to see Savanah even though it was only for a little while.
Here is what the van looked like. We had six kids and six car seats. Some would call this crazy, but we had a lot of fun on our drive. The kids were great both ways. They watched movies, or played games, ate snacks and talked to each other. I really was surprised at how well they did. The babies slept most of the drive, they weren't feeling the best, so that was really nice.
When we got there the kids were so excited to be there. They had every toy out in what seemed like minutes. They played for a few hours before we put them to bed and then we got to visit and play some games.
The next day started with a favorite of all the kids, frosting sugar cookies. Camille made a different color of frosting for each kid and they each had their own bottle of sprinkles. They ended up trading with each other. They loved seeing all the different cookies they could make. This is always a great thing to do with a bunch of kids.
After we finished frosting the cookies the kids went out and played on the play ground that is out Camille's front door. We let the kids play until we were to cold to stay out any longer. The kids weren't cold. While we were out there they took the toys from the play ground up to the top of the slide and then would send them down. They thought that was pretty fun.
The next day was the nicest, weather, so we had planned to go to the zoo this day. It was a perfect day for the zoo. In the very first building that we went into there was this little monkey just sitting right on the railing. The kids were so close to it. It would just sit and look at them. It came over by Elly and I and I was getting a little nervous that it was going to attack us or something because monkeys do that right.
The kids loved how close it was to them.
There was a cool rope bridge that the kids could walk acrossed. Some of the kids were a little nervouse until they were about to the other side and then they all had to do it again.
This was our little group that we had at the zoo. Three adults and eight kids, we were our own little zoo.
There were a lot of fun little places that the kids could go in to. We saw some really neat things and this really weird animal. This thing is like a mixture of a few animals. Kind of weird I thought.
In the desert dome there were these melt lizzards sitting on the rocks. Tyler was scared to touch them because he was sure that they were really. It was funny watching him get the nerve to touch it and find out if it was really or not.
The penguins were probably my favorite thing there. Mason would run up and down the glass by the penguins and they would swim by him. They were faster ofcourse and they probably weren't really racing him but he liked it.
The tunel were we could walk under the fish and sharks was another favorite part. They had lots of neat things in here for the kids to look at. It was really nice that while we were in here there were no other people so that kids could run around and see everything they wanted without anybody in the way.
It was pretty funny when the kids were looking at the king crab Tyler was hanging on to Mason like that crab was going to get out or something so I just had to help out the situation and gave out a little scream right by Tyler. That kid sure can jump. We laughed and laughed about that.
These were cute little butterfly benches that we stopped to change diapers on and take a little break on, until we noticed that there were bees every where.
Mason, Tyler and Elly on the Girraffi.
Here are all the kids at the really giraffis.
Elly with the zebras in the background. While we were down by the Zebras Mason found this big leaf, his aunt thought this would be a great picture.
Here we have our monkeys with their monkeys.
The kids thought this was great, getting to climb all over these monkeys. We got some great pictures of the kids here.
The really monkeys were really fun to see. The kids like following them around. There was a baby monkey there that the zoo had in a diaper. I think that the mom was hurt so they had to take care of it. The kids thought that was pretty funny.
This was just a great tree that was screaming at us to take a pictures with it. It had all these nice little seats for the kids to sit on.
Then we had the farm animals. This was a fun spot too. They had goats that the kids could pet and there were chickens running around. You would think this would just be fun for kids that haven't seen chickens before, but no these kids had so much fun running around in here.
Tyler wanted to pet a chicken so he spent most of his time trying to get one. He did pet one eventully. He had Camille follow him around with her camera the whole time. My camera had died by this time. She was a very good sport and got a bunch off pictures of him.
Mason and Devan had fun throwing rocks and the chickens, that was until we noticed what they were laughing about.
We had to have the kids climb on this guy for a picture too. The poor girls got eatten.
This spiders web was a fun thing to. They loved climbing around on this and showing us their cool tricks that they could do on it. We had to have them pull there best spider face.
This was just a great picture, we thought anyway.
Mason was just showing me these really cool birds that they had in there. I thought you could see them in this picture, but you can't.
Everywhere we went the kids found something fun to do. Here we are just walking over to see the Elephants and rinhos, that ended up not being there, and the kids are just enjoying everything we walked by. They each have either sticks or leaves in their hands or both. They gather things all day long. Most of it did not make it to the car though.
The kids loved feeding the fish. They were like this everywhere in the water.
This is the bridge were the kids would throw the food off of to feed the fish.
Another great picture opportunity.
We had the best time at the zoo. We were there for seven hours and the kids were so good. They never cried that they were hungry, or tired of walking and they never had any fights. The kids ran from place to place and just had so much fun. It really was the best day.
The next day that we were there we just hung out and let the kids play, that evening we went out and did a little shopping and the kids were pretty good for that. I am sure while we were trying things on and the kids were having fun in the changing rooms the workers were thinking we were crazy to have brought our kids, but we had fun.
The day we left we decided we better have some pictures with all of us in it. That was funny to watch I am sure. We never did get one that was perfect of all of us at the sametime but since I am posting it I will be the one that doesn't look good.
Before we headed out we went up to see these train engines that they have there by the interstate. The kids liked this place. I was surprised at how big the engines are. I guess that I am used to seeing them from the road.
I had to get a picture of Elly here because I felt like I hardly took any of her because she was sick and sleeping for most of the trip.
It was really sad when it was time for us to go Gracie started crying because she didn't want her cousins to go, she just wanted them to stay. It would have been fun to stay longer, but I was trying to get back to my house by saturday night.
To bad we go snowed in in Cheyenne on the way home and they didn't open the interstate until noon the next day. When we went to find a room that night in Cheyenne they told me I could have there last room that had a loud heater, which they would give to me at a discount, or I could try the churches around town, you can probably guess what we did.
We had a great trip and would do it again. Thanks Camille for having us and I hope that we left your house in one peice. Sorry there are so many pictures but it was hard to decide which ones to leave out.
