A Day at the London Zoo

Today we headed down to London to visit the London Zoo in Regent's Park.  Last year we took Addison to the zoo when she was about Harrison's age. Now that she is a bit older and knows the different animals we thought it would be fun to see the zoo again through her eyes and it was even more fun this time.  

Here we are checking out the lion...Addie gave us the best ROAR she had and tried teaching Harry how to do it too.

Here is Addison at the zoo when she was 7 months old sitting on her Daddy's shoulders.

Here is Addison at 26 months (2years old) on her Daddy's shoulders in the same place at the park.  Funny thing is that Dad is happened to be wearing the same shirt during both trips to the zoo.

In England the call zebras, ze-bras with a short e like when you say Ted.  We call them zee-bras, so we caught ourselves calling them both depending on if there were any English people around us...we didn't want to sound silly in front of them but wanted to teach Addison the "right" way to say it.

This giraffe was trying to eat and apple with its really, really long  tongue.

"Compare the Meer-kat...dot com"  There is a really goofy commercial here for Comparethemarket.com for an insurance comparison site and they have a spoof on with a Meerkat...so you can't help but sing their little jingle with it.

Addison loved riding on the merry-go-round.  She wave at us every time she went around.  

Just before we left the zoo we watch a bird show on the side of this little hill.  I about had a bird swipe the top of my head.  I screamed like a little girl of course.

After our trip to the zoo we walked around Regent's Park to get the kids to fall asleep and take a bit of nap before we grabbed a bit to eat.  I absolutely love the parks in London.  The gardens are amazing and they are so well taken care of.  It was a beautiful day and there were people everywhere.  On our way to eat dinner we discovered that you don't want to walk down Regent's street and Oxford street (the two busiest shopping streets) on a Saturday afternoon because there are people everywhere and it took us forever to get to Piccadilly Circus to find out that it would be an hour wait for dinner at TGIFriday's...so we walked off the beaten path and found a Pizza Express which has now become my TGIF's of England.