Detroit Zoo

So, after listening to Dave beg and beg for us to come with him on a business trip....and finally giving in... I find myself in downtown Detroit, Michigan for a loooong weekend. (We are sans Bryce because he has summer school and cannot miss any days, so the Hope's have graciously offered to host him. I have more to post about our resident loverboy....but another day.)
When we go to different cities, I try to teach my children to be adventurous, especially during the day when Dave is working....sometimes it is difficult because I don't know which blocks are dangerous....but I found directions to the zoo and off we went. The weather was glorious...mid 70's...and the day was great. (Above, we are at the zoo entrance...somehow those bears look frolicksome and gay but I kept my obversations to myself.)

Could this possibly look anymore Fourth of July?!

Tate only has eyes for Riley, she can make him smile or laugh anytime.

Parker has a thing for rhinos, he took a million pictures.

This is the part I like to call "Please rip me off for $5.00 a pop while my girls feed the giraffe a wasa cracker."

Previously mentioned swindling still in place.

We thought this looked like a "Dave Bode" reindeer. Enough said.

This is like a fear factor torture chamber....you climb into a tunnel and see that prairie dogs are running all around you...and there are, like, a million.

Riley in some eskimo-made (I mean inuit peoples) structure.

Watching the polar bears.

Parker is insane and continually begs me to drive him to Canada....it doesn't matter how many times I tell him he needs a passport....I just think he wants to see border patrol pack me down and arrest me for illegally entering a country.

Keep posted for more Michigan adventures....I am trying to talk Dave into walking Greektown with me....but he is paranoid that some homeless (I mean transient) person is going to talk to him.