The Epic Weekend – Part 2

In Part 1 of my epic weekend I discussed Saturday, but Sunday was much more involved because we spent the day at the zoo.

I’ll admit I grudgingly dragged myself from bed early on Sunday so that we could get to the zoo when it opened. We’re talking me waking up on Sunday the same time I do during the week – not good! Surprisingly we got to the zoo at the planned time and I continued to develop my fine glow of sunburn from Saturday.

We’d taken the twins to the zoo back when they were little but they couldn’t remember it because they slept most of the time we were there so it was pretty new for them, while being completely new for their younger sister. Madeleine was our reason for visiting the zoo as it was her 8th Birthday on the 31st of August (I got her the complete collection of Roald Dahl books which disappointed her because she wanted ModNation Racers and I am apparently the uncle who buys games).

All in all the day went really well. We saw a Koala actually moving (which was a first for me), a Pygmy Hippo with it’s mother (so cute!), one of the baby Thai elephants running around like a crazy thing after getting washed, and I took plenty of photo’s all around (which I’ll upload just as soon as I sort through them). The kids were incredibly well behaved too, though they’re pretty well behaved compared to other kids I’ve seen.

I got in trouble a few times for rushing everyone along because I wanted to make sure I got home for my 7pm raid and despite getting home at about 7:15pm I was lucky enough that the guys had saved me a spot and waited. I spent the last part of my weekend raiding with friends and couldn’t have been more pleased.

Next weekend should be a lot quieter, which pleases me.