"If Kashin Could See This, She Would Be So Excited!"

Today Auckland Zoo opened their doors to the public, free of charge, to celebrate Kashin's life. Kashin was the face of the zoo for over 30 years and had to be put to sleep this past Monday after her health deteriorated too much. Thousands of people turned up to say goodbye and we were all able to go behind the scenes to see where she is now buried. It was a very cool and special morning. Here are some of the pictures we took from the day.

This was placed just outside of the drive leading to the zoo entrance and welcomed people in.

It seemed as though all the animals knew something special was happening because they were all out and most were pretty active!

This was taken just before we left...it was a good trip!

There were a lot of pictures all over the zoo and random areas with sidewalk chalk for people to leave messages. Here are a few that we found as well as the kids putting their stamp on the day.

Talor said that he wanted to go see Burma because as he put it, "he must be really lonely now." Who would've thought that wouldn't be the last wise words out of his mouth today!

After walking to the top of a VERY steep hill (mom, it was the one we saw Kashin and Burma walking down when they walked past us on your trip last year) we were able to see where she is now buried and say goodbye.

What a day!

As we were leaving the zoo, going stop and go in the insane traffic in the area, Talor spoke from the backseat very quietly and said, "If Kashin could see this, she would be so excited!"

New photos of the kids

We thought we would show off Talor's first ever drawing of a face with actual features...not bad. We also think that this is quite a cute smile of Layla's.

Around the "witching hour" (aka between 4-6PM) Layla becomes quite attached to us and often finds her way onto the kitchen bench where she will "help" get dinner ready. Here are a few of her antics...including eating an onion.

A few weeks ago Talor got his face painted for the first time as Spiderman...a few days later he was able to become a lion thanks to kindy.

Finally, here are just two random ones of the kids playing in their sandbox and Talor a bittired one day.

Finally, the other day Talor was playing on our deck and he got stung by a wasp...as you can imagine, he didn't like it.

Potatoes!

Well the only thing in the garden right now are potatoes, but golly they are probably the best looking potato plants we have ever grown. They were planted about 6 weeks ago and we are going to dig them up when Jon's mum is here on holiday so in about another 5 weeks.

Hopefully they will have big potatoes underneath!

Knitting update....

Above are the fingerless gloves I blogged about a while ago, only one in the photo as the other hand was taking the photo LOL

Milo Vests - love this pattern, here are the first two and I currently am 2/3rds of the way through a pink one for Layla, I have even learnt how to do a couple of different cable patterns.