Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The Zoo and the Epic Birthday Fail

For my birthday, my parents met us in Omaha and we all went to the zoo.
Watching her feed crickets to the snake.  Eww!
Turtle, turtle!
Behold the ever-brave Addilyn. Tap, tap.
Here it comes!
Success!
Well, hello there. Nice to make your acquaintance.
We were all pretty entertained by this (she got to do this a few times).
Welcome to the jungle. Slip!
 Exploring said jungle with Grandma & Grandpa.
The view from the backside of the waterfall.
One huge fruit bat.
Watching the penguins.
There it goes!

I really hope there was a shark swimming over.
Jelly fish.

After the zoo we headed to our hotel and then out to dinner.  Dinner was pretty wonderful.  After a very long wait to get in, we ate yummy food and the kids acted great (even though it was really late at this point).  Toward the end of dinner, a couple of them fell asleep and it was really a wonderful, peaceful evening.
And then came the night.  Just after midnight Elias came down with the stomach flu.  Then around 7 in the morning, Albert did too.  That meant I was up every 15 minutes to a half an hour all night.  Then around 10 I got sick too. Bleck!  We had half of the family sick in a hotel.  Even after we got an extension on check out, we still had to figure out how to get home (being that Tyler was preaching the next morning).  It made for a comically bad day.

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