The Sacramento Zoo

Since we moved here I have become a little bit obsessed with saving money. Probably because the cost of living here is higher than Kansas and so our budget is tighter. So I feel like it is my responsibility to save us money wherever possible. I don't want to not be stuck not getting to go anywhere so it just means keeping my eyes open for deals. Sacramento was having a free museum day back at the beginning of February where all the museums were free. And it included the Zoo so I was all over that. Especially because it was such a warm day. We invited Uncle Kimball to come along. We love it that he always likes to hang out with us, and the girls just adore him. The Zoo was packed and since it was free it pulled the really high quality people but it was still worth it. There was a tiger that we wanted to see so we went over to the glass and looked to see if we could find it. It was coming our way so we waited thinking it wouldn't get all that close. But it jumped up on the ledge and put his face right up to the glass. He was seriously only about a foot from us and he stayed there for almost a minute. It was crazy. Of course I didn't have my camera ready and I was just too entranced to think about it until it was too late to get a picture.

There actually was a jaguar here and Nellie just about had a heart attack over it. She sat and stared at that thing for about ten minutes without moving and I am seriously not exaggerating. Here they are pointing to it, it is just really hard to see.