My day with the Staleys

Can I just say I want the Staley family to adopt me!!! :) I loved hanging out with them at the Bronx Zoo today!

Here's me and Melinda!

Now, all you RAKScrapers already know how great Melinda is... but the rest of her family is so great too! The kids are so cute and super smart. They all had lots of stories to tell me. Brenna kept trying to "get me," which was fun because I play that with T all the time. And the girls wanted to walk with me or hold my hand, which was just so sweet! Even Bryce had lots to tell me about the animals and his games. They all told me how their mom likes to take lots of photos LOL! And baby Sarah is just a little honey - and she kept looking at me like "who is this crazy person"? Hee!

Here's the whole family... Mark, Sarah, Brenna, Carissa, Bryce, Melinda and Beth. (They were also impressed that I could name them all when I met them!)

The kids posed on a lizard at the Reptile House.

It was a lazy day for the animals at the zoo - the lions, tigers, wild dogs, everything we went by pretty much all sleeping and lolling about. It was a really nice day out at least. But we did see a lot of cool and awake birds, reptiles and monkeys in the indoor sections...

This guy's a cuban amazon parrot!

And here's a camel - I guess they had to wake them up for the camel ride!

And well I really wanted to see these wild dogs - so I could compare them to Rocky, but they were LAZY. So I guess they were like the Rock Star. Took a photo of the billboard instead! :)

But the best part was hanging out with all of them. I really did feel like I knew the whole family just from Melinda's layout! :) And I hope we can do it again!