DFW Trip (Day 4--The ZOO!)

Friday morning I checked out of the hotel with the kids (Jay had his last day of class so he wasn't with us during the fun times lol), got some more amazing breakfast at the best hotel we've ever stayed, and headed to Ft Worth to the zoo. I knew it would be super hot and humid, and I wasn't wrong. After the headache of FINDING the zoo and then parking a mile away despite getting there basically when it opened, we got in fairly quickly. And, of course, they both had to pee and Braden refuses to use the girls' bathroom. I got both of them taken care of and then realized, with horror, that I had left my phone in the stall. After frantically searching for about 3 minutes, I went to the customer service office and someone had turned it in. Yay! 

So, crisis averted, right? WRONG. 

The first exhibit we went to was the chimps. The kids are looking across the moat at the animals, I pull my phone from my back pocket to take a quick photo and...did I mention I had just put sunblock lotion and bug spray on all of us? Because that phone shot out of my greasy hand, ten feet in the air....and over the fence into the exhibit. We could see it, but we couldn't reach it. I had to go back to the front and tell someone to please get one of the zookeepers to get my phone out because I didn't want to end up on the news. 

Ten minutes later, I got my phone back. Again. 

We didn't walk the whole park since it was just me and the kids (YOU TRY IT!) and we were sweating like crazy! So we saw all the animals the kids REALLY wanted to see which took a couple of hours.

WHITE TIGER

TURTLES

FLAMINGOS

GIRAFFES

But, let's be real, the actual reason they wanted to be there was for the SPLASH PAD!!!!

They were less than thrilled when we had to leave to head back to Midland. 
Especially the little one :( 

SELFIE FAIL