School has started back up and so have our weekly dates with Valerie. While the older cousins get a good start on their week of homeschooling, the "littles" and I get to go play. The last two weeks we've spent the morning at the zoo. Thanks to the family pass from Grandma and Grandpa Beck - and since Valerie is only 3 and therefore still free - it makes for a fabulessly cheap morning! Just $3 for all of them to ride the carrousel and 50 cents for me to feed the sheep and goats.
We get there right when it opens and pretty much have the place to ourselves. Instead of having to pull the kids off the safari jeep screeching (the kids screeching, not me - well, at least most of the time it isn't me) they can play on it until they get bored! It's fantastic!! The monkies are totally active, the sloth bear is sitting by the window to get fed, and the red pandas are pacing instead of holed up in their cave.
Looks like soooooo much fun! I want to skip school and come with you. Thanks so much for doing this. Valerie absoutely loves it. I am praying for beautiful sunshine on many, many more Monday mornings. Love you Susie!
ReplyDeleteAlso - are "monkies" little men who take a vow of celibacy or are they small apes? :)
ReplyDeleteI bet you got excited that there were three comments, eh?! Nope. Just me again. HA!
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