Trip to Boise

I love our town, I really do.  Yet, sometimes, we have to venture out and explore the rest of the great world (or our state).
We wanted to take our kids on a fun play day, so we went to the Boise Zoo first.

We are big fans of the zoo.  This time around, we decided to become zoo members and our membership is valid at over 100 zoos and aquariums in the United States.  It will take us two trips to the zoo for the membership to pay for itself. Since we frequent quite a bit of zoos, it's worth it for us.

The Boise Zoo is the perfect size for toddlers and preschoolers to run around and play.  We make it around the entire zoo in less than hour and there is never a huge crowd.   They mainly have smaller animals, but they do have lions, tigers and giraffes. Oh my!  One of our favorites is the pengiun exhibit, even though it reminds me of Happy Feet every time.

From the zoo, we went to Chuck E. Cheese.

This was our first time there since I was a little girl and I must admit that it was very overwhelming.  Loud noises, flashing lights, unsupervised kids running around screaming and video game after video game.  Have I sold you on it yet?

The kids did have a great time at Chuck E. Cheese though, so that made it worth it and now we can say that we have gone.

For the 2+ hour car ride home, it was pure silence for 3 little kids.