Monday, April 7, 2008
This does not look like the Zoo...
Cam had this past week off for spring break and we wore him out really well. We all had a great time each day doing fun stuff as a family like vacuuming, dishes, wash ect.-No-I'm kidding I did that stufff and we still had fun as a family. One day we flew Grant and Claire's mini kites at a park-Cam and I had a ball because we could actually keep the kites in the air. Claire rode her trike most of the time and Grant just pouted becuase he couldn't keep his kite up but he didn't want help either. On Tuesday we went to the Natural History Museum it was a really neat place, we had not been before. All Claire wanted to do was see the dinosaurs, so she didn't really care about all the other cool stuff there. Grant on the other hand could have spent a week there and still not wanted to leave. Wednesday, we decided to take a trip to the Columbus Zoo we had been once before and really liked it. One cool thing is they have a Manatee there. After dropping off our Mazda to get a new muffler and coming home to pick up about 6 things we had left including the DIRECTIONS, we were on our way. Life was good, the kids all did really well on the way down. Cam and I made it past the dreaded town of Wooster-what a name-that's the only reason we don't like the town! It takes a little over 2 hours to get there. We got to our final exit and were trying to orient ourselves nothing we saw looked familiar. We continued to follow the directions and they led us through a quaint little neighborhood. The last direction said turn right on Riverfront Road (or something like that) and then right again and you are there. There we were in a muddy alley that as Cam described could barely fit our van with the river right next to us. There was only one small problem NO ZOO!! HELLO! Thanks for nothin' Google Maps!! We had to think quick becuase someone was behind us (maybe they were trying to go to the zoo too!) So we got out of the not so quaint alley and headed for a more populated location as to hopefully piggy-back on someones unsecure wireless computer connection. We found our way thanks to a unsecure connection and a call to my sister Jackie, we were on the road again-to the Zoo this time. We made it and had a really good time. It is a really clean zoo with tons of different animals,imagine tha a zoo has animals! They had just opened their Asian exhibit which was cool. We saw the Manatee which was cool, Claire was more excited about the lettuce floating in the water that they eat then the actual Manatee itself! Brig was parked right up to the glass so he would try and touch the fish and sting rays as they floated by him. For some reason the ONLY animal Grant really wanted to see was the Buffalo. North America was our last stop and by this time the Zoo was almost closing and Cam and I were DONE. If I had to feed anoter fish cracker to Claire or Brig I might have turned into a cracker myself!Cam had carried Brig in a pack on his back the whole way and I had pushed the stroller. The Zoo is like 80 acres-it's a ways to walk. It's a good thing I have been doing Tae Bo! We saw all the North American animals and were headed down to see the Buffalo-but no-the ONLY one they had was WAY FAR FAR FAR AWAY on a hill and only Cam was tall enough to see it! Maybe they need to ask Yellowstone for a few more!? Grant was quite bummed, he just kept saying all I wanted to see was a buffalo! Cam and I tried to remind him of the time he was 1 1/2 years old in Yellowstone and he got to see them but he didn't believe us. Poor kid. We made it out of the Zoo but we didn't have directions home-here we go. We stopped by Wendies for fast (make you sick)food and asked for directions. We went the way we were told for a while but then got lost in a gated community. With our really LOUD rattly van we chased down these two walkers in this very nice community and had them tell us the way to the freeway. We made it home with only half a cup of Wendies lemonade spilled in the back seat and garbage including but not limited to fruit snacks, french fries, paper, wrappers, candy and lemonade soaked books. Dosen't it sound like fun! Any one up for a Zoo day-we have a pass.
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9 comments:
All I can say is WOW! I was tired after reading your day adventure to the zoo! I'm glad you had fun, sorry about all the unknown obstacles and setbacks! Also glad you had a good bday even if you did celebrate it with cops and dumb fighting teenagers!
you are so much braver than Matt and I. I have to drag Matt kicking and screaming, yes I did say Matt, to do the zoo or anything that isn't the lego store. Ha ha. Your kids will appreciate it later. Its like camping, lots of work for you, but lots of memories for the kiddos.
I LOVE the Columbus Zoo! So much better than Cleveland's.
P.S. We recently got lost on the way to the zoo too, they built a lot of new roads and such... much nicer, but google maps needs to get on the ball!
How hilarious... you and Cam tell a story in a very similar language... a trip with the fam will never be complete without food and garbage on the floor of the vehicle, it's true. That reminds me of when Goldfish crackers spilled in the van when we all went to Oregon together and there weren't even kids in the picture at that point! Someday an Oregon Coast trip again would be the best.
Sounds like quite an adventure!
LOL, you just crack me up. :) Seriously...do you want to go to the zoo next week? Cleveland though, I'm not up for a drive down to Columbus. :) Still laughing Audrey!!!!! Thanks!
Audrey,
Just found your blog, it's SO FUN! I love your zoo story, we went last May and I thought it was a great zoo, too bad about the buffalo and the directions though, at least it makes the trip memorable, right?
You could've call me I know the Zoo. It was my summer home when we we lived in Columbus. But so you know, freeways in Columbus are crazy. I think they moved and change daily. You can get lost very easy. But at the end It looks like you had fun.
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