Zoo

Today we got up extra early to spend a day at the zoo, something we haven't done in years!! By some miracle we were up, made lunches and out the door by 7:30am so we could get the most out of our day.
We got to the zoo by 10:30 and met up with our friends, some we hadn't seen in 2 yrs so that was pretty cool. We started the trip by taking the 100 kids we had with us to the bathroom, pretty standard right?? Well the line was pretty long so I decided it was in everyone's best interest to get things moving and I went in with Asher. He peed and I bent over to help him with his pants and sure enough  I heard something fall into the toilet. I took me a minute before I realized in shock and horror that my phone had slipped out of my back pocket and into the toilet...which had not yet been flushed!! What a way to start our trip. Of course no one happened to have packed a spare baggie of rice, so it remains to be seen if it will ever work again or not :(

The next melodrama came when we went to retrieve our pre paid tickets...somehow they had lost them!! I have no idea how this happened, but after 20 minutes or so they showed up in an envelope addressed Jeannine Somethingorother...it was the right amount of tickets, so if there is a Jeannine who couldn't get into the zoo today because your tickets were gone, sorry! I swear we paid for ours and I have no idea how they filed them under that name or how they came to realize that they were actually ours!!

The rest of the day was pretty smooth sailing. It was a nice day to walk around the zoo and spend time with everyone. The kids really enjoyed seeing all the animals and were especially glad that we got the see the penguins and they got to say goodbye to the elephants who will be moving.
Capping off the day is my now more ridiculous burn. I have three diifferent burn lines going on up top thanks to my farmer's tan from yesterday, my camera strap burn, now my bra strap and tank top burn...it looks awesome. Even my one lonely wrinkle has a burn line now!! It's white on the inside and red on the outside, I'm sure from frowning and squinting from the sun. I'm sure I'll hear about my raccoon eyes at work tomorrow lol.

Once we left there we made it to Costco in time for them to close the doors right in front of me, thanks Costco, and then we took the kids out to dinner. I'm pretty sure we are officially broke from this weekend but it's once a summer and it was totally worth it!! Everyone's home in bed now, and I think that's where I'll go too!

See you soon!