Spring Break Vacation, April 5-6, 2009

Zoo, Hotel, Park, Transportation Museum, and Safari


On the way. With Palm Sunday palms.


Bear


Flamingos


Nicholas and Donkey



Whispering


Feeding a llama



Max and Mommy in line for elephant rides.


Mandrill


Giraffe


Nicholas and Giraffe


Max and Mommy still in line.


Elephant skin detail


Rear view



Elephant ride




Elephant ride



Elephant ride


Mommy feeding a llama


Mommy feeding a giraffe


Daddy feeding giraffe



Mommy and camel


Alligators


"That bird pecked me!"


Mommy and Nicholas feeding goats


Mommy and Nicholas feeding goats


Max feeding goats.



Goats


Max and Nicholas


Heading to the hotel.


Max


Hotel room - Room 317


Hampton Inn under construction


Heading to the pool


Getting wet for the first time


Mommy, Max, and Nicholas


Daddy and Nicholas


Daddy, Nicholas, and Max


Mommy running


Max in the pool


Nicholas in the pool


Elevator back to the room.


Nicholas unlocking


Boys in the "Hot Tub"


Applesauce in the bed


Hampton Inn Roanoke-Hollins


Eating at Pizza Den



Dessert pizza


$0.30 / year for children


Construction detail


Walking to the Walrond Park


Max


Nicholas on equipment



Max running


Nicholas on tube slide


Nicholas and Mommy


Max on the march


Hotel cookies


Bed time


7:00 AM - still quiet


Heading to the pool


Max in the pool


Fully body swirlies


Mommy, Max, and Nicholas


Shouting


Jumping


Snorkle Operator


Boys watching snorkle



Snorkle bumps into light


Max is ticklish


Transportation Museum


Max "not touching"


Max and taxi


4 level train display


5 tracks of trains


Max can't believe it


Snocat


Derrick Car


Electric engine


Mommy and Nicholas


Kissing in the caboose


Nicholas and Daddy


Mommy and boys


Engines


Nicholas walking between the tracks


Nicholas by locomotive


Helicopter boys



Trolley Driver Nicholas


and Max


One last train watching


Chick-Fil-A lunch


Playland


Water buffalo


Nicholas feeding emu


Mommy and llama


Daddy and deer


Max and llama


Feeding an emu


Zebra


Feeding and petting a zebra




Rhea


Emu


Llama finishes the food


Max the cammel


Horny Toad and Max


Kangaroos



Much colder today!



Last pictures



Ride home


Sleeping all the way