Turtleback Zoo trip

A co-worker and I were talking about something that led us to talk about zoos.  She lives close to the Turtleback zoo in East Orange (about an hour away from home).  She indicated that every once in a while they have free admission and she'd let me know if/when the next time will be.  About two weeks later, she sent me an email and there was a posting that they had free admission the following weekend!  So we planned our trip for that weekend and decided to check out their web site before we went.  I thought it was strange that their website didn't have anything about the 'free admission' so I did a little more digging and found out that LAST year they had free admission on that weekend.  We ended up postponing the trip one day but still went.  Amelia still had her cast (the short one) so we had the strollers but she did a fair amount of walking.  They had fun and so did we.  It was fun to watch them see all the animals in real life!

Here are some pictures of the day.   Our trip started out with breakfast on the road...

 

It was a pretty hot day out but the kids just wanted to run around and play after the long car ride.  

Tony checking out a butterfly.

Amelia and Olivia very interested in a peacock.

At the end of our day before the sky opened up with rain. (Amelia was pretty tired and not in the mood to smile).

The ride home wasn't too bad  - although it was raining but we hadn't eaten too much so we were hungry and ended up stopping at a pizza place and the kids stayed asleep for most of it.  It was a nice day and we got to see most of the animals.  We'll definitely be going back soon!