the zoo!

What a blast of a day!  In retrospect, going to the zoo at 39 weeks pregnant might not have been a super idea...I thought at one point, "Crud.  I do NOT want to have a baby in the Orangutang Abode."  That was a LOT of walking!  But, we all made it, and Lily had SUCH a good time.  She was on cloud 9 all day, and so were we.

It was finally a beautiful day, the monkeys and bears especially kept her glued for hours, and of course, the zoo's two huge playgrounds kept her busy the rest of the day.

What a blessing God gave us today, just to be together as family and to do something purely fun together and a million miles from our normal reality...talk about culture shock!  Matt and I couldn't help but dream together when we were standing in the middle of it all about how FUN it would be to bring the students somehow to the Columbus Zoo.  Their wonderment would have matched Lily's, for sure.