Pee Pee Panic = Dashing through the SD Zoo

 I was just uploading pictures to my computer and remembering our trip to the SD Zoo last week.   I took the twins to a play date at the Zoo with and it was so fun and calm.  I am liking this whole missing the crowds during the working week thing.  Everything was going so well.  The kids were behaving and we were all having a great time.   The animals were pretty well visible and there was not much crowding so we could see well.  For the first time, we saw the tiger close up.  Usually, like any of the big cats, they are just barely visible lounging up at the top corners of the exhibit, but we just happened to walk by at feeding time and the tiger came right down close to the glass,  I had just finished snapping a shot and thinking this is going to be so cool to watch, when Kaden announced, "Mama, my pee pees!"  This is said as I look down to see him doing the potty dance with a look of urgency on his face.   So, I turned to my friend Mary, who knows the zoo like the back of her hand, and she pointed me in the right direction and we took off running towards the restrooms.  We were nowhere close!  Looking back it could have been bad, but my daughter was totally cooperating.  I had one in each hand and they were both running while I speed walked. I know my the look on my face as I shuffled through the zoo with the kids running next to me I must have looked like a crazed freak!    I was just thinking, " Are you kidding me?  Where are the restrooms?  Should I let Kaden stand and pee in the bush or keep going for it and hope for the best?  I swear we just kept going, and just when I would think it had to be right there at the next cluster of buildings, it wasn't.  I was very lucky because it was almost as if the kids understood and knew not to throw a fit.  (There have been many unmanageable public fits.)  Looking back, I would have been so screwed if they were not both willing to hustle.  They are too big for me to carry and there is no way I could carry one and bolt through with the other.  And I hadn't packed a change of clothes.  Looking back I think our Restroom dash was between a quarter and a half mile!   I have no idea how it turned out.  I am so proud of my little man for making it all the way. 

Here are some pics.  The tiger had just moved down and I couldn't believe it was even this close, before it moved down in front of the window.  Then, we were out of there and didn't get to see meal time.

Here are some other pictures from the zoo.