Lemons to lemonade

We owe Hard Rock Casino a big "Thank You!!!" They gave Jon a forced day off today. Which at first we were NOT happy about, nobody likes losing money right?!?! But instead of "wasting" the day at home, we went to the zoo in New Orleans for the 1st time as a family. We had a such a great time and Sophie was absolutely hilarious.

Jon and I found a tree that you were allowed to climb up, so Jon and I both took a turn at it. We tried to get Sophie to sit up there with us, but she wanted NOTHING to do with it.

This was so cute. She loved the baby lion. She kept roaring at it and petting it. We tried to get her to sit on it, but for some reason she was COMPLETE scaredy cat (no pun intended) and didn't want to sit on anything foreign today including on the carousel. (we actually had to ride on the bench on the carousel..weird kid, I know!!! LOL)

Look at my stud....being attacked by birds.

This was the ironic part of the day. Remember I said Sophie was completely scared of everything. Well, apparently this does not include goats, sheep and pigs. She IMMEDIATELY ran into the pen and went up to all the animals and had to touch them all. It was SOOOO cute!