Luckily Rylan slept later (to 5:30 am) so we weren't so tired. However, he was nice enough to poop all over me right before we left. I had just finished feeding Rylan and had laid him on my lap with his head at my knees when I realized that my legs were wet. Rylan had shot tons of poop out the back of his diaper. There was so much that it was dripping down my legs when I stood up. It was very, very gross.
Once that was cleaned up, we were on our way! Brian's parents took their car since our family is now too large to all fit in just one of our cars with two additional adults. We left around 9:30 am and expected Carter to sleep on the hour drive, but he didn't. Carter knew we were going to the zoo and kept making his monkey sound the entire drive. It got a little annoying after awhile. Rylan slept the whole way though so that was nice.
The North Carolina Zoo was designed so that the animals found on each continent are grouped together. So far the zoo has only completed Africa and North America (they ran out of money a long time ago and I don't know if they are going to add more any time soon).
Here's a picture of Carter on the bridge to the zoo entrance ...
We did Africa first. The animals have huge habitats so there is a lot of walking between exhibits. We brought the BOB stroller, but I had Rylan in the Bjorn most of the time and Brian ended up carrying Carter a lot. Carter was very attached to Brian our entire trip and wouldn't let anyone else hold him most of the time.
We had great weather. Not too hot but super sunny. We actually had amazing weather our entire trip. I got out very little of the winter clothes I had packed.
Carter hanging with a chimp ...
Me with my boys ...
Another chimp ...
And finally a real chimp ...
This is how Carter tries to sit on Charlotte. He's only been successful once (she usually escapes before he can do anything like this) ...
Checking out the elephants ...
Rylan was really good the entire time we were at the zoo.
Carter got super excited when he saw the carousel so we had to let him take a ride. He kept saying "aahh, aahh" (his monkey sound) whenever he passed by me.
After lunch we did the North American animals. Most of the animals were out where we could see them, but most weren't very active.
A family photo ...
We stopped by the Garden Friends Playground to let Carter play for a little bit. He's getting really good at climbing ...
We finally headed out around 3 pm. Everyone was a little worn out from all the walking and Carter chasing, but we had made plans to meet up with some friends near Greensboro.
When I was little, my family lived across the street from Bob and Cathy and they have twin boys (Matthew and Steven) that are about a month older than me, as well as a girl (Jessica) a few years older than us. Matthew married a friend of mine (Kari) and they had a baby girl (Anna) on June 1st. None of them have ever met our boys so Bob, Cathy, Matthew, Kari, and Anna met us at Hagan Stone Park (link) in Pleasant Garden.
Carter slept on the drive to the park and Rylan screamed until he passed out from all the screaming. Rylan was unfortunately in a bad mood the rest of the day but Carter had fun playing.
Cathy and Bob with Anna and Rylan ...
Cathy, Kari, and me with Rylan, Anna, and Carter ...
Me and Matthew switching kids (notice how much bigger Rylan is compared to Anna!) ...
Carter had lots of fun playing with everyone. He took Cathy on a walk to the lake and they threw sticks into the water. His favorite person though was Matthew. They played on the playground for awhile. Carter even went down the slide a bunch (he's been very anti-slide lately).
Carter collected sticks for awhile too. This was his mac daddy find ...
After about an hour and a half, we all headed on home. Brian, the kids, and I stopped by Moe's on the way back to the house for dinner. The boys did great at dinner but Rylan was super fussy again in the car. He cried himself to sleep though eventually, again.
We got back to the house around 7:30 pm, let Carter play with the toy cars for a little bit, and then got the boys off to bed.
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