Recently we had some dear Mississippi friendsn (Jon and Kristen) come down to South Louisiana to visit us for the weekend. Kristen was my first friend and roommate when I moved out of my comfort zone of Pascagoula and moved to Jackson. She has been a big part of my life and has been there through good times and bad and I'm so thankful for her friendship.
Anyway, since we now live in South Louisiana we decided we wanted to go to New Orleans on Saturday and do something fun. Well what better way to spend a hot August day than to go to the New Orleans Zoo. Yes, we went to the zoo and actually had more fun than we thought we would have.
I love animals but didn't think that going to the zoo as an adult (and without having kids) was actually going to be very much fun. We saw elephants, alligators, white tigers, monkeys of all kind and I even went inside of the reptile hut....only because it was air conditioned and I made Ryan promise to hold my hand the entire time and he was NOT allowed (nor was anyone else with us) to scare me.
After our zoo trip we took our friends to our favorite snowball stand in town and enjoyed the rest of the night. Kristen and Jon also got to hear Ryan preach on Sunday morning.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from the zoo.
