Let me just start by saying how I wish my job was to predict the weather.
There is no other job where you can be wrong 90% of the time and still have a job and get paid boo-coo's of dollars!!
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So, Saturday was supposed to be gorgeous... 0% chance of rain, highs in the mid- 70s, BEAUTIFUL!
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Upon waking up for what was supposed to be a gloriously beautiful day at the ZOO, we saw a gloomy, sprinkly day...
No worries because we were promised that by 10:00am the rain would be gone and that this BLIP on the radar came out of no where and would soon disappear.
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ReAlLy?!?!?!?
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So, once up from her morning nap, we packed up to go to the zoo... 10:01 am, more than half way there, MORE RAIN... 10:30 AM @ the gate... Raining so hard we needed the wipers on full speed...
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NICE!
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Any weathermen up for punching bag of the year award?
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This was supposed to be our first trip to the zoo... Alas, it was our first trip to the Aquarium Downtown. And we had a blast!
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We were a little concerned that Gracelee would not get it and that she would be too young to enjoy it, but we were wrong! She did fabulously, and enjoyed every minute of it... so did daddy and momma!
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The gloom and doom of the day was quickly forgotten as we strode through the entrance to the smiles and squeals of a 1 year old girl in the land of the fishes!!!
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God has a way of doing that, ya know... not our plan but His... even in the little things!
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It is a nice reminder to go with the flow and enjoy the day for what it is!
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With that... here is a picture adventure of our day:
Uh... yes! That fish scared the beejeezus out of me! In the picture above you see where he was to start and then he quickly flitted his tail and smiled for the camera... Reason number 103,000,001 that I WILL NOT go into water that I cannot see the bottom!
Gracelee did cling for dear life a couple of times... you just don't know what the animals are thinking and that is just plain scary!
I love her sense of wonderment!
Daddy would explain and she listened intently!
A kissy for a fishy!
That poor window had a bunch of spittle on it as it belonged to the Tiger... and at our house the kitty says "Hissssss"
YIPES!!! Touching a starfish...
And some of our animal friends...
Gracelee's favorite!
So we will try again for the zoo THIS saturday... who knows where we will end up!
