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Family Adventure Day at Roger Williams Park Zoo


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This Summer we’ve designated Wednesdays as family adventure days. We go and get out of the house to enjoy something. Today we had to go and get Eva’s uniforms for school and the place to get any uniform for schools around her is Donnelly’s. We figured that while we were down that way we’d hit up the Roger Williams Park Zoo for the afternoon.

The Roger Williams Park Zoo is a nice zoo. They have very large animals and some very small ones. There are Elephants and Giraffes and they are a big draw. The Giraffes are Eva’s favorite animals there. There is a house where they are washed and treated. The house is also used for education. We try and read all of the signage around the zoo to familiarize Eva with where the animals are from and other interesting facts.

We had a nice day at the zoo and it was a gear up to Eva’s upcoming Zoocademy camp. She’s going to have such a fun time and once she’s done she’s going to know so much about our zoo. Continue reading Family Adventure Day at Roger Williams Park Zoo

Gone Back to Lion Country Safari


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Our vacation took us back over to Lion Country Safari again. We went last year and the kids had a lot of fun. This year they had even more fun. It was great. On the way there Andrew fell asleep. Partway through the safari he woke up and flipped out that there were animals all over the place. He got into Allison’s lap and was screaming and smiling and was so excited to see Zebras, Rhinos and Giraffes. The animals were all over the place and very active this trip. Continue reading Gone Back to Lion Country Safari