Lake Tobias take three

We have gone to Lake Tobias two other times - on  September 3, 2011 and September 2, 2013. It's a small zoo; the main attractions are the safari tour in a bus, the reptile building, and the petting zoo. We did see a few animals at this zoo that weren't at the National Zoo in DC such as zeedonks, zebu (just like the VeggieTales song), camels, zebras, water buffalo, bison, watusi, Texas longhorn, etc. A few animals were at both zoos such as lions, tigers, monkeys, ostrich, alpaca, bears, prairie dogs, peccary, gazelle, macaque, sloths, goats, etc. We left my parent's house around 10:30 this morning in a caravan of three vehicles. Wendy and I were in Paul's car, Paul drove our minivan with Adam, Ian, and Oliver, and Drayton drove their minivan with Susie, Rachel, Nadia, and Grace. We arrived at Lake Tobias around 1:00 and stayed there a little over four hours including our time spent eating lunch. We then drove the rest of the way home to our house.

The kids jumped on the trampoline while I quickly made pancakes and scrambled eggs for dinner. After dinner, I gave six of the kids baths (Susie took her own shower), and we got them in bed about 30 minutes later than usual. Adam is sleeping in Nadia's bed, and Grace is sleeping in a pack and play in that same bedroom. Drayton and Wendy are sleeping on the sofa bed in the living room. Nadia and Susie are sleeping on the sofa bed in the family room, and Rachel is sleeping on a blow-up mattress in the family room. Tomorrow night Rachel and Susie will switch places. They were having  a hard time deciding whom would sleep together (all three wanted to share the queen size bed), so I suggested they alternate nights as to who gets to sleep with Nadia. The cousins are having fun playing with toys that are new to them. We're planning to take them to our swimming pool the next two days. I have many more pictures to share, but those will have to wait as it's time for me to go to bed!