Aquarium Trip Part I

So we got up at 7:00am Sunday morning and my goal was to be out the door by 7:30. We pulled it off! We had packed everything up Friday night while Gracie was at Nana Kay's, and then we left it all in the livingroom. The only thing I had to do Sunday morning was pack up the cooler of drinks and off we went! Traffic wasn't too bad heading toward Atlanta, and we made our halfway stop at the GA visitor center on that side of the state line. The woman behind the counter offered us free reading material and then informed us that there was construction going on in downtown, so she jotted down some alternate driving directions for us. We got lost trying to get to the hotel and when we found out J.Christopher's was going to have a 30 minute wait to be seated, we decided to head off to the zoo and have lunch there. And to be honest, the food was rather good to be so decently priced.

They had this board up just outside the carousel, and I let Gracie "feed" the giraffe some spare change.


Gracie picked out a bear when she rode the carousel with me. When she rode a second time with Kayla and Bryan, she decided to ride a bird instead.


Gracie, on the carousel with Mommy.


Gracie on the "choo-choo".


Kayla, Gracie, and Bryan on the carousel for the second time.


Gracie, "cheesing" right next to the tiger!


She looks a little too close for comfort, huh?


This adorable baby Panda bear!


Panda bear again.


Kayla and Gracie, sipping an Icee to cool off in the scorching heat!

The zoo was fun but we didn't last long (mainly because of the outrageous mid-afternoon heat wave) but we enjoyed the time we did spend there.