Woodland Park Zoo

While visiting Seattle this past weekend we visited the Woodland Park Zoo. Compared to our Vancouver Zoo I was very impressed. Plus with our membership to Carlsbad Living Desert Zoo we got in for FREE! Click HERE to read about our day at Carlsbad Zoo on my travel blog from this past summer. Our all time favourite zoo is still the Tampa Lowry Zoo in Florida. Click HERE to see our day there. If you visit central Florida and have kids...make sure you go. We got way more then our monies worth there.

Now onto our day at Woodland Park Zoo! It was a rainy and cool day but a lot of the animals were out including this whole family of monkeys right at the zoo entrance :)

Deciding which path to take and what animals to see first

 This elephant was fun to watch. He kept tossing mud on his back, 

then he'd roll around and get back up and toss some more.

 We got to see this Tapir excitedly run back and forth through this little swimming hole.

"Come on lets get going"

 plotting out the path

There were lots of wonderful sculptures all over the zoo. 

Here the girls timidly explore a wolf den with baby wolf sculptures.

 Isn't this bear a beauty :)

Aayla loving this river otter sculpture

 Feeding the birdies

 This little guy 

reminds me of the story Verdi

In the outdoor woodland playground there were these turtle shells 

so the girls could pretend to be Franklin :)

 Sierra loved climbing on this big spider web. 

It reminded me of Eric Carles the Very Busy Spider

 

All in all we enjoyed our rainy wet zoo day!

Seattle Children's Museum

I'm a bit behind...this weekend we took a trip to Seattle.

and we went to the Children's Museum. The girls had a great time. They loved Global Village where they explored different cultures.

Having fun sewing

Making music 

 Visiting the different homes. 

Here Aayla makes herself comfortable in a bed in Japan.

 and Sierra checks out the kitchen

 Can you tell Aayla likes beds??? Here she climbs in with Mama Bear and lays down for a little rest.

Night Night Mama Bear

They went on an ocean adventure

 and joined in a dance party

 Come on Grammy...join us!

Then we headed to Discovery bay

 Time for lunch...the food court area had pint sized table and chairs for the kids...a great idea!

Then we went back in to the Lego/Block area. For some reason both girls were more interested in the duplo then the lego.

 I LOVE these duplo walls. It was one of the things I used to always looked at in the catalogues for daycare but never bought so playing with it was lots of fun! (I have an idea to make one of these at home. We have duplo alphabets which these would be perfect for)

 Aayla spent a lot of time riding the cars around.

Sierra posing in front of mural in the lego room

Next we headed to La Cocina del Cacto which was Aaylas favourite. 

She could have stayed in here for hours!

Here Aayla makes a smoothie :) 

 And delivers it to an awaiting customer

 Next Sierra brings in some tacos

 Yum yum

 Oh my grammy sure will be full after this meal

Then it was off to the Theatre

 And learning about the behind the scenes areas like pulling the drapes 

and using the lights and sound box.

 Then it was time to do some shopping. This was a fun area but I was disappointed with it as the store area in the San Antonia Childrens Museum we went to in the summer was amazing!!! (See my post HERE if you want to see our time we spent there).

 Sierra filling her cart FULL of bread products

 And then weighing them all...oh my!

Then we were on to the Construction Zone where Aayla 

had more fun laying out all the pieces on the floor in lines

 Then they measured the lines

 Here Sierra is collecting paintcans...but these paint cans were food to feed her cows???

 Then it was time to hop on the bus and head back to the hotel :)

All aboard!

 My girls can not walk by leaves without picking up a handful :)

 Night night Space Needle...it looked so pretty lit up and framed by the colourful leaves.