Boo at the Zoo

For the past two years, we have enjoyed Boo at the Zoo.  Our local zoo, the New York State Zoo at Thompson Park, puts on this wonderful fall event for the kiddos.  The Thompson Park Zoo is really unique because the only animals represented at this zoo are animals native to Upstate New York.  We have a bald eagle and a couple golden eagles, a mountain lion and lynx, sea otters, reindeer and our favorite, the black bear.  

All the animals are out for viewing, off course, but tons and tons of area business and groups will set up tables where kids can play educational and carnival games for candy, face painting and new this year a really icky table with the boxes where you put your hand in blind and touch "body parts" like brains, intestines and eyeballs.

The kids actual costumes for Halloween are a muskateer and a butterfly but since I worked really hard on those costumes and 100% chance of rain and cardboard butterfly wings, I hopped over to Old Navy for a $5 costume sale and picked up a super cute cheetah costume for Alaina and Connor wore an old Spider-Man costume...with the help of the fabulous face painting guy we had some pretty cute spur-of-the-moment costumes and a lot of pre-Halloween fun!