A DAY AT THE ZOO!!!

Yesterday was an awesome day!!!  I woke up, heard it was supposed to be a beeeauuutiful day and decided that it would be a great day to go to the zoo....with my honey and my grandbabies!  Unfortunately my honey wasn't as enthusiastic (he'd been out of town, so don't blame him).  So I met Rob and picked up the kiddos!!!  They were not told where we were going, just that it was an surprise...an adventure!!  EmJ was positive we were going to the mountains!   "It's definitely the mountains!!"  "What makes you think that, Emme?" I asked.  " Because we can SEE them!!" they BOTH replied in unison!!  "Well.... maybe!  We'll have to wait and see!"  I said!  So OFF we went!  They guessed "to see the horses" and the "waterpark", "mountains" again, and "I have NO idea"!   It took us awhile to get to our destination because of a traffic problem on I-25, which I cleverly thought I'd avoid by going down Colorado Blvd! (It helps to know which county road IS Colorado Blvd before you head in that direction!)  :( But this was an adventure so there was no stress!  We all just went with the flow!

You learn a lot from your grandbabies when you just LISTEN!  And listen, I did!  I learned that at "At 5:00 mommy and Aunt Kelsey and I are having a girl time! And you're invited!  But you have to have curly hair. So you just get it wet and crunch it!"  Gavin piped up and said the "Yeah and daddy and me and Uncle Aaron are having a guy time!  Grampa's invited too!  We're going to have a burping contest to see who can do the longest one and the smelliest one!!"  :).

We had a little breakfast at McDonalds with one of the BIGGEST play areas I've ever seen!  But since this wasn't out final destination we didn't stay real long!  As we got closer, they were more and more curious!  But once we turned onto Colorado Blvd south of I-25 and got closer to Steele street Gavin cried out, "It's the ZOO!!  I KNOW it IS!!  I recognize this area!!"  Smart boy!  But I still didn't say yet!  Not until I put the blinker on to turn in to the parking lot, when at that time they both squealed "THE ZOO!!  I KNEW IT!! I KNEW IT!  YAY!!  IT'S THE ZOO!!!!"  :)

We has a wonderful time!  The weather was perfect!  Partly cloudy, but comfortable!  At first the animals were pretty sleepy but once they woke up they put on pretty good shows!!  The tigers in particular, we're really animated!!  The kids and I LOVED it!!

We only had two times when one of the kids, who will remain nameless, decided to get a bit testy!  I had two dollars in quarters in my pocket in case they still had food for the ducks (which by the way, they do not).  I'm pretty sure that God inspired this thought--I told both Gavin and Emery that I was going to give each of them 4 quarters.  Every time they got testy or nasty or mean they would owe me one of their quarters!  This worked like a CHARM!!!!  And they were SO proud that they had ALL their quarters when we loaded back into the car to go home!!!

On the way home Gavin invoked the "Quiet Game."  Which they are NOW pretty good at!!!  I'd forgotten we were playing it until Emme said something after QUITE awhile and Gavin said "Oh, YOU LOSE!!"   They played it quite a bit!  (I think they were pretty worn out so it made it much easier!!)

We ate a late supper at Taco Bell--Gavin ate 7 tacos!!!  Whoa!!  (He asked for 8 but took one home!)  I took them to their Aunt Shell's new home to meet up with Rob and Janaque and I headed back to Loveland!

I am so thankful for the day!  It was my definite HIGH!!!  No low!!!   :-D

I will post pictures later....having trouble with the computer keeping my accounts straight at this time!!!

I LOVE MY GRANDKIDDOS!!!