Yesterday in Houston

Since Matt was out of town this weekend, my babysitter and I (have I said lately how much I LOVE my babysitter?!?!?) decided to take the boys to Houston. We had plans to stay the night too (which the boys love to stay in hotels so were super excited) but decided not to. I wanted my own bed- I was so tired!

Anyway, we took them to then Houston Zoo, which was okay, but there were SO many people there (the weather was awesome, so I guess that had a lot to do with it!) It actually took us 30 minutes just to find a parking spot to go! Anyway, here are a few pictures of that:

That giraffe was so cool and was pretty close to us!


This giraffe was REALLY young- like born in the last week! SOOO cute!


And this is the mama giraffe- she saw the boys and kept looking at them- really neat!!




I love giraffes- I think they are one of my favorite animals at the zoo!



And then we went to the Downtown Aquarium. We had never been and it was SOO cool! We went on a train ride through out the park, which was awesome. They have a shark tunnel and you are surrounded by sharks- above you, around you, etc. It was SOOO cool! They also have a really neat aquarium thing set up with tons of fish and awesome decor- it was SO much nicer than the zoo! The white tigers they had were really beautiful as well, and the boys thought that was awesome (still not quite sure what the white tigers had to do with an aquarium, but whatever- it was still cool!) LOL

Here are the pictures from that though:

Us on the train ride


Jace (was sitting in front of me with Elizabeth)


The HUGE ferris wheel they have there (viewed from the train)


SHARKS!!! :-)






You can't see it very well, but there is a HUGE python behind the boys!


White tigers- SO beautiful!! (sorry, not a very good picture!)



They thought this was pretty cool!


Blayden watching the fish at the resteraunt