Riverbanks Zoo

After our last soccer game a few weeks ago, we went down to Columbia for a trip to the Riverbanks Zoo with MaSha. Tara, Matt, Leece and Madison met us there from Charleston, too. MaSha gifted the boys (and the girls) with tickets to the zoo for their birthdays this year. I love experience gifts! I'm so glad that we were able to find a weekend that worked for all of us too, especially since fall tends to be very busy.

That zoo is really, really great! We enjoyed it so much! It's much bigger than the Greenville Zoo and has some entertaining and fun displays.

Here's a glimpse of our day in picture form. Think I took a few?!? ;)

Kiddos right when we walked in
the entrance. Ready to go!

Ryan loved the animals

elephants!

MaSha + kids

These sea lions were one of the highlights!

giraffes

So cool!

Kids with  MaSha and Aunt Tara

Another view of the sea lion tank

These guys were so enteraining! I could have watched
them for hours. Kids loved them, too!

Boo in the Zoo!

All the cuties

Petting zoo - alpaca

Having a blast letting the goat (?) lick them

William loved the snakes

Lookie, lookie! What did we find here?!?!?! Ironically, Clemson had a football game against NC State at 3:30 and we were repping our orange in Columbia that day. How could we not?! So when we saw the Tiger den and a roaming tiger, we couldn't help to take advantage! This Tiger was on the prowl. He kept walking back and forth and looked scary. It was pretty awesome.

The BEST!
Go Tigers!

Family Tiger pic

In awe...

Aquarium

Checking out all the fish!

Carousel rides for all!

Snack time!

Chocolate ice cream for this choco-holic

Resting and snacking for a few

Happiest boy

Sea otters - also super fun!

Hey RyRy!

Flamingos

My honey and me with the flamingos

Watching the penguins

Penguin area

Cute cousins

These guys smelled terrible
but look how pretty they are!

Another TIGER!
What what!!!

Thanking MaSha for a fun day

MaSha and her litles

Sleepy boy in the car
All the kids passed out and we listened
to the Clemson game on the radio on the
way home. Win win.