My friend Tiffany and I had a low-key activity planned for Veterans Day — the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo. It’s nice and small, and very contained so great for squirrelly kids (and their moms). We’d checked the hours on the website and it looked like they were going to be open. Alas, no.
Plan B was another zoo Tiffany knew about, Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, which turned out to be a much larger undertaking, but a fun day nonetheless. First up after a very long line getting in (we were not the only ones with this Plan B, apparently) was the carousel.
After that we headed into the animal exhibits. There were lots of good ones, but the only one I took a picture of was the meerkats.
After lunch we went to the park area which had the biggest play structure I’ve ever seen. The kids loved it.
After that, some wanted to go on the roller coaster, some didn’t, so we split up. I took Jacqui and Ezra to the maze …
… while Tiffany took Finn, Lucas, Arianne and Gabby on the roller coaster. It screamed out for a slo-mo video.
Then we waited in line for about an hour for the boys to ride these things.
On the way out we stopped to see more animals when we realized there was another side to the zoo. Ezra was particularly happy.
