Good Friday Zoo Trip

April 3, 2015

After Michal working so, so hard the month of March... he got Good Friday off of work. I could have had him help me clean the house... or we could have taken it easy (since he'd been working so hard)... but we decided to head over to the zoo so that Lily could see the "animals".

Michal was such a trooper about it, he didn't complain about going - but I think that both of us were glad we went when we saw how happy Lily was at seeing each animal.  (Even though we were worn out when we were done with both the North America and the Africa parts of the zoo).

We found out from the zoo volunteers, that Good Friday is their busiest day of the WHOLE year.  Because many husbands get the day off work and it's usually the first nice day where you can be outside.  We didn't know it would be so busy, so we were only able to see a handful of animals (seals, puffins, bears, elephants, giraffes, and zebras) because the exhibits were just way too busy or there were too many people and we just wanted to get from point A to point B without fighting the crowds huddled around the animal enclosures.

Ever since our zoo trip, Lily has been asking every day to go and see the "animals."  Each time I ask her to put her shoes on, she says, "Animals? Animals?"  It breaks my heart to disappoint her when we arrive at the store, but I went ahead and bought a double stroller so that I can take her on my own... right now I have to have another adult to push Lily (since I am pushing Marco in the Bob stroller we have).  As soon as the double stroller comes in the mail, we will be making it out to the zoo much more often since we bought a yearly pass.  Lily will be so happy - and I will do anything (or spend anything - even the price of a double stroller!) to make her happy!