A visit to The Turtle Back Zoo & Crayola Factory

In August we were lucky to have my sister Amanda come to New Jersey to visit us. While she was here we went to the Turtle Back Zoo & The Crayola Factory. At the Zoo, we saw lots of different animals. Cole and his cousin Jasmine went on the pony ride. They thought that was pretty cool! Cole even got to feed some birds. Cole's favorite animal to see was the monkey's. I loved seeing the penguins.

I thought it was pretty neat that we were able to go in and feed the birds. I wasn't sure how Cole would react to the birds flying around looking for the food. He did really well and had fun feeding them.

Aunt Mandy and Chloe waiting for us while we were on the pony ride.



That aligator looks hungry, "I hope we aren't lunch"

It's a good thing the aligator is behind the glass!!

Just Monkeying around!!



The Crayola Factory was fun and exciting. We saw how they made crayons and silly puddy. We got to experience diffrent areas throughout the factory that had to deal with diffrent crayola products. Cole's favorite part seeing the largest crayon ever made. Which happens to be his favorite color BLUE!!


I had to take a picture of this. Here Daddy is giving Cole a lesson on how to wash your clothes by hand. Cole thought it was the funniest thing.

The largest crayon was made on October 11, 2003. It weighs 1,500 pounds. 123,000 blue crayons were gathered from children around the country to make this crayon. Coloring capacity, You could color a straight line for nearly 10 miles or cover an area the size of a football field


Crayola Tidbits
- in the year 2000 the color blue ranks #1 in favorite color.
- there are six shades of blue (cerulean, midnight blue,aquamarine, periwinkle, denim, and blizzard blue)
-1997, new crayon colors are issued commemorating 8 true blue heroes nominated by kids. They include outer space, mountain meadow, fuzzy wuzzy, brown brink pink, shadow banana mania, torch red and purple heart.
-1902, listening to teachers, Binny and Smith make the first dustless school chalk.
-1996, Fred Rodger's of "Mister Rodger's Neighborhood" molds the 100 billionth Crayola crayon, named "blue ribbon"
- in October 2003 four crayons were retired (teal blue, magic mint, mulberry and blizzard blue). For their 100th Birthday Celebration fans were asked to name four new color hues. the ones choosen were ( wild blue yonder, inchworm, jazzberry jam and mango tango).