happy b-day jason

I know, Jason's birthday was back in March...

His favorite gift was his new In-N-Out apron, which he broke in the next weekend at Youth Conference where he was in charge of the food. The Reads took us to the Wild Animal Park, where Emily loved all the animals. It seemed like we saw more birds than anything. This is a quick video of the dive-bombing bird and Leanna's screech :)

We were the first in line for feeding the lorakeets, which Leanna pointed out was a plus because then we didn't get peed on by them.

Emily wasn't too sure of them!

Matt always tries something different! Emily was really into feeding the deer (aka cows)

Dad gave Emily a shoulder ride...

...and Emily gave Dad a head massage.

We were all super excited to see the new baby elephant!

And then we went to the bird show, where we saw more birds...

Jason begrudgingly reenacts a picture I took of him here when we were dating. (He's standing in front of a diagram of the armspan of a gorilla).

Yet another bird- not an owl, but a freaky looking non-owl from Australia.

We rest our feet on the Heart of Africa tourbus

Emily loved Matt's binoculars

And kept pretending to use them!

Thanks for a fun day Reads!