Scenes from the road

Yesterday was a big day full of lots of adventure and activity. In fact, I was so tired that I went in to lay with Caroline while she went to sleep last night and Gulley came in and woke me up an hour later. What can I say? The zoo makes me tired.

We started the day with some tattoos.

Rode public transportation which was a great reminder to me of why I am not a fan of public transportation.

It would be fine except for all the people.

Then we made it to the Dallas Zoo. Everyone warned us that the Forth Worth Zoo was so much better than the Dallas Zoo, but we didn’t feel like driving an hour to Forth Worth so we took our chances with the allegedly far inferior Dallas Zoo.

It totally paid off because the kids got to see penguins and a gorilla, both of which cannot be found at the San Antonio Zoo.

Other than that, they rode the carousel and we saw a bunch of birds. I am convinced that birds are basically zoo filler. It’s basically a cheap way to provide something else for people to look at with minimal investment. Why pay to ship in a tiger or a hippo when you can just put some brightly colored pigeons in a “natural habitat” and call it an exhibit?

After paying $8.00 for a zoo cheeseburger that Caroline didn’t eat and realizing the temperature had reached 101 degrees, we decided it was time to take our lives in our hands and hop back on the DART system to get back home.

Later, we headed to the pool to meet our dear friend, Hite, for some swimming and the hopes of flat wearing the kids out so they’d go to bed at a decent hour.

Unfortunately, somebody’s kid decided she needed to go to the bathroom after ten minutes at the pool so we left in search of a restroom and ended up at a neighborhood park with a splash pad.

And after a full day of activities and fun, we all still love each other.

We’ll even share towels.

At least until we get in a big argument over whose turn it is to sit in the “way back” of Hite’s car and it all turns ugly. Fortunately there is no photographic evidence of this unfortunate turn of events.