No vacation is complete without a trip to the zoo. Well, this seems to be the case for us anyway. We went to the zoo in Springfield and had a grand time. We walked forever, but the kids had lots of fun looking at animals and Alexander even learned a new type of animal. Until now every animal has been a dog. For a brief couple of days he did say cat, but that is over now and everything is a dog again. However, at the zoo he also learned "bird". So now there are two categories of animals, dogs, and birds.




These otters put on a good show for us. I'm pretty sure they were actually putting on a show, the looked over and saw us at the window and moved their game over so that it would be right in front of us. They were fun to watch!