Zoo

A few weeks ago, we made a trip with the boat to a lake a couple hours from here. Sounds easy, right? Maybe even relaxing? Wrong! It ended up being 1 hour to pick up our boat, 1 hour to get gas, air, and lunch, 2 hours to get to the lake, and 1 hour to find a public ramp where we could put in. Whew! Finally! Time to relax, right? Wrong again! After an hour & a half on the lake, it started to rain. Ugh! Half an hour to trailer and cover the boat, 2 hours back to storage, 1 hour to clean up the boat and eat dinner, and 1 hour to get back home. That ended up being 9 & 1/2 hours of traveling for 1 & 1/2 on the lake!!! Kevin & I vowed, then & there, that we would never again plan to travel for longer than we planned to be at our destination.

All that to say... we were only at the baby shower for about 2 hours yesterday, but we would be traveling for a total of 3. We weren't ready to leave town just yet!!! It was easy to decide where to spend the extra time - my favorite place in town - the zoo! The boys & I headed to the zoo even with the risk of rain looming overhead. We rode the tram all around the zoo, seeing many animals all along the way. We stopped to see a fabulous new dinosaur exhibit where very realistic looking robots towered 2 stories high! It was incredible! Carter thought they were "awesome", but Bryson was a little nervous. Look at how tiny Carter looks standing next to the life size giants! It started to rain at that point, but just a little, so we walked around a bit more. We stayed dry riding the carousel (Carter rode the cheetah; Bryson chose the "couch"). As we walked in the rain, Carter ran from covered area to covered area to stay dry but stopped at every sprayer to get wet. :-) The lions were feeling playful in the cool air, and put on a wonderful show for us right in front of the glass (this is rare as they usually hide behind their "mountain"). It was a great trip!