Presidents Day!

The kids were out of school for President's day, so regardless of the weather, we were going to the zoo. It took forever for us to get out of the house. The kids had to do their chores regardless of it being a holiday. As we were preparing to leave, I noticed both Ashley and Mandy were wearing their slippers that look like boots. I told them that it wasn't a good idea to wear their slippers to the zoo. They did their usual "I don't care attitude" so I left it at that. I was thinking more that we would be doing lots of walking and slippers aren't shoes to be walking around the zoo. We had to stop at Mike's work to pick up his computer so he could work from home the next day and then we headed to the zoo. Of course as we neared the zoo, the rain picked up a little more. It wasn't a heavy rain just a nice drizzle. Brooke had never been to the zoo before so I was determined to let her enjoy her first zoo visit. We saw most of the animals but of course spent most of our zoo time in the covered areas such as the giraffe's and the lizard and snake area. Any time there was a bench in a covered area, Mandy would take off her slippers and wring them out. Of course I let her know that slippers were not a good idea and she let me know that she KNEW!

We spent a few hours at the zoo and then decided to end it with a good lunch from expensive chuck a rama. jk While at lunch, I asked Brooke what her favorite animal at the zoo was? She said the camel. This made me laugh since we didn't even stop to look at them, we just walked by them. HA ha ha. After the kids had eaten all of the ice cream at chuck a rama, we had to stop at Joann's to find some material for Ashley to make a dress. Being a holiday, it took us about an hour to get out of there. Thank goodness Mike kept the kids with him in the van. So if someone doesn't think that we taught our kids about presidents day, we did! That some presidents are donkeys, elephants, and some are snakes. See it does apply! Here's wishing for more great President's Days!