Gabrielle's Zoo Snooze

This past Tuesday I joined Gabrielle and her class (along with 30 other parents!) on the Zoo Snooze overnight field trip. We headed up to Portland Tuesday after lunch and got to tour the Oregon Zoo's hospital and commissary as well as see some animals up and close. After a full evening of touring, we all slept (30 per room!) in a couple of classrooms in sleeping bags! The next morning we toured more of the zoo and then headed back home after lunch. The best part of the trip was being with Gabrielle and seeing her excitement. She was very excited to go on this field trip and was so happy and excited the whole time.

St. Paul School's 3rd grade class with their teachers, Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Silva

Our small touring group: Trent, Brandon, Emma, Pheobe, Gabrielle and our tour guide, David

At the commissary learning about feeding the animals. Gabrielle (and her friends) freaked out when we went in the freezer and saw bags full of frozen (dead) mice, rats and rabbits which will be fed to some of the animals at the zoo!

We all loved touching and learning about the lizard, turtle and snake (not pictured)

Gabrielle and Jorja had a lot of fun together, as always!

Elle and me snuggled up before bed!

It was great that the animals were so active in the morning. We got to see so many animals up close.

As part of this field trip all the kids were assigned an animal to study and do a report on. Here is the White-Cheeked Gibbon, Gabrielle's animal.

I love my girl and so enjoyed spending time with her!