For our family costume theme this year we went with pirates! We headed to Boo at the Zoo like we always do and had a great time. The girls love everything about it and I am happy to do this for them. When we were all getting ready in the morning Dani couldn’t quite figure out what was happening, but she was so excited because the other girls were. We headed for the zoo and showed her that if she gave them a ticket they would give her candy. This thrilled her and it was so sweet to see her excitement. Then we went over to the area with shows and games and she found out she could get candy for playing games too. Nadia and Amelie knew what was going on and they were very serious about where to use their tickets.
Dani’s pirate faces might be the best thing about this Halloween!
Nadia loves the area where you can shoot the rifles because if you hit the targets the animitronics move. The last two times we went the area wasn’t working so I was happy they could do it this time. I had to get this photo of Amelie too because she was so serious when it was her turn. Once again we had a great time at Boo at the Zoo!
**This is a side story about how our day at the zoo started. Our entire family had plastic swords and Mike had a fake flintlock pistol. As we were going in they told us that we could leave them in guest services or take them back to our car because no one could bring “weapons” in the zoo. Nadia couldn’t believe it and was even a little offended that anyone would think that they were in the slightest bit real. They look so clearly fake, but I took them back to the car. When I was collecting them I missed the little one Dani had and that is why we had a photo of her with it at the end.
Once we got to the shooting gallery Nadia immediately noticed that in that part of the zoo the guns look REAL and they charge you a dollar to use them. She couldn’t get over the fact that it was a-okay to pay to use the real looking ones, but we couldn’t carry around silver plastic swords. So I took this photo. It was one of those moments that made me proud because she worked that lack of logic out so quick.
