Today is someone special’s birthday–Dustin turns 38!!! (The boys and I love you, Dustin!!). We did have plans to go out to eat for supper and go for dessert, but we’ve had issues with the new countertops we had installed at the end of June and they called yesterday to let us know they are coming this afternoon to redo everything. Womp womp….really puts a kink in our plans. So we’ll see what we end up doing!
Yesterday morning the four of us loaded up in my car and drove to the Nashville Zoo for a fun little day trip. Neither Dustin nor I had ever been to the Nashville Zoo and we’ve taken Harrison to the Birmingham Zoo twice, so we were ready to try something new. The zoo is also on the south side of Nashville, so it made getting there extremely easy.
Disclaimer, I didn’t take a ton of pictures. I really was just living in the moment and honestly, the Nashville Zoo wasn’t really a favorite.
Here we are beginning our drive to Nashville! We’re lucky that we live about an hour and a half away, so that makes for a very easy day trip.
Everyone is ready to go in and explore! And Banks was prepared with two stroller fans 🙂
We got to the zoo at lunch time, so we stopped at one of their restaurants to eat–plus it was time to feed Banks a bottle and we were able to do it in the air conditioning. We ate at about 11:30, and since it was a little early, the restaurant was not crowded at all! Dustin and I both had a smash burger and Harrison ate chicken fingers.
Harrison found a bench that was just his size to sit on!
Banks is not the best on the go napper, but he was able to nap well in the stroller yesterday.
They had a little petting zoo where Harrison got to pet a few goats.
And this is the one time I asked Dustin to take a picture of me and the boys (so I could say I was at the zoo with them LOL) and last night when he sent me the picture, I realized then that he cut Banks out…
The giraffe exhibit was closed and the train was closed. They didn’t have any elephants or lions (which we had just watched The Lion King so we were excited to see those animals), but we did get right next to a tiger and their alligator exhibit was very cool! Overall, we had a great day as a family exploring something new!
