Tail Gate Party, Alaska Style

When you have snow 9 months of the year (or so my husband would have me believe... I like to think it's more like 7 tops!), you have to learn to adapt. We may not have 12 months of summer weather, but that's okay. We can party even in the winter. Check out this toddler lunch party at the zoo:

Nice, right?!  And most of them even look happy.  I love it.  We had a zoo date with Patrick, Cassidy, Felicity, Danarra, and baby Matthias (not pictured).  It was an unusual day at the zoo.  The toddlers must have smelled particularly delicious, as many of the carnivorous animals came to the edges of their pens to check out the kids checking out them.  We saw the tiger, who paced back and forth 5 feet away from us, eying 5 toddlers lined up in a row.  We saw the wolves, who made Jake jump and scream when one of them howled at the kids. We saw the eagle, who chirped at them.  We didn't see... the bears.  They're still hibernating.  (well, not the polar bears - but the other ones).

It was fun!  And at the end we piled in the back of the vehicle for a food break.  Why not, right?