Finally I had one of those weekends that you actually enjoy. You know the kind where you do things that you enjoy and that the family enjoys too. Yeah some of the landscaping projects around the house were bugging me that I wasn't working on them, but screw it, the landscaping will always be there.
Friday night was sad. We had to go up to Angola after I got home from work for a funeral viewing. I am still trying to figure out how I am related to the guy who passed away, but it's basically the grandson of my mom's, aunt (or something like that)... so it's probably like a 3rd cousin a couple times removed. Unfortunately he committed suicide last week. I don't know the details on events surrounding his death, and it's really none of my concern as long as he rests in peace. But it did give us a chance to see some relatives from Florida that we don't see that often. Next time I will rethink taking a 4 year old and a 1.5 year old to something like this again since all they did was run around. It seemed a bit disrespectful at a viewing to me, but it was a chance to have the kids see some more of the family.
Saturday was fun fun fun at Germanfest. Just about the only event that I will make an effort to go downtown for. We met up with mom, Dan, Rhonda, and Rhoda's mom Alta. We all had a real good time. We ate bratwurst and german potato salad with Kutchen (yummmyyy). And the beer was very tasty too. After containing the boys long enough to feed them, they were off and roaming all over the place (especially Andrew). So would let him do his thing and stay a couple steps behind him to make sure that he didn't get into anything that he shouldn't, and occasionally steer him back toward our table to top off my beer. We were able to see the Weinerdog races from the tent and that was move visible and better than last year. It still could be tweaked, but so much better than last year. After hanging out there for a couple of hours we headed for home.
Sunday we packed up the kids and headed for the Zoo. Every year we say we are going to buy a season ticket and every year we don't. But this year we had a little "rock" money laying around and bought the pass so we are good to go for the season. What a perfect day it was outside, it was a little warm, but no unbearable. We took a wagon with us to the zoo so we could transport both kids at the same time and also give us a way to carry a little cooler of water and supplies. That worked out very well even though some of the hills at the zoo are a little steep going up and was quite the workout especially with both kids in it. The boys got to pet a snake at one of the little nature stops which freaked out Jen. I didn't realize how much she hated snakes. Snakes.. why did it have to be snakes... (thanks indy). We got our first look at the new ride in the African veldt part of the zoo. Basically it's just a ski lift right now going over a construction site which my brother found out Saturday. After that we headed to the rainforrest part of the zoo which takes us by the horses. Every time we go past them William wants to look at them, but you couldn't talk him into riding them. I talked him into it and he took his first horse ride (with me right next to him) and seemed to really enjoy it.
Friday night was sad. We had to go up to Angola after I got home from work for a funeral viewing. I am still trying to figure out how I am related to the guy who passed away, but it's basically the grandson of my mom's, aunt (or something like that)... so it's probably like a 3rd cousin a couple times removed. Unfortunately he committed suicide last week. I don't know the details on events surrounding his death, and it's really none of my concern as long as he rests in peace. But it did give us a chance to see some relatives from Florida that we don't see that often. Next time I will rethink taking a 4 year old and a 1.5 year old to something like this again since all they did was run around. It seemed a bit disrespectful at a viewing to me, but it was a chance to have the kids see some more of the family.
Saturday was fun fun fun at Germanfest. Just about the only event that I will make an effort to go downtown for. We met up with mom, Dan, Rhonda, and Rhoda's mom Alta. We all had a real good time. We ate bratwurst and german potato salad with Kutchen (yummmyyy). And the beer was very tasty too. After containing the boys long enough to feed them, they were off and roaming all over the place (especially Andrew). So would let him do his thing and stay a couple steps behind him to make sure that he didn't get into anything that he shouldn't, and occasionally steer him back toward our table to top off my beer. We were able to see the Weinerdog races from the tent and that was move visible and better than last year. It still could be tweaked, but so much better than last year. After hanging out there for a couple of hours we headed for home.
Sunday we packed up the kids and headed for the Zoo. Every year we say we are going to buy a season ticket and every year we don't. But this year we had a little "rock" money laying around and bought the pass so we are good to go for the season. What a perfect day it was outside, it was a little warm, but no unbearable. We took a wagon with us to the zoo so we could transport both kids at the same time and also give us a way to carry a little cooler of water and supplies. That worked out very well even though some of the hills at the zoo are a little steep going up and was quite the workout especially with both kids in it. The boys got to pet a snake at one of the little nature stops which freaked out Jen. I didn't realize how much she hated snakes. Snakes.. why did it have to be snakes... (thanks indy). We got our first look at the new ride in the African veldt part of the zoo. Basically it's just a ski lift right now going over a construction site which my brother found out Saturday. After that we headed to the rainforrest part of the zoo which takes us by the horses. Every time we go past them William wants to look at them, but you couldn't talk him into riding them. I talked him into it and he took his first horse ride (with me right next to him) and seemed to really enjoy it.
Later as we were leaving the Australian part of the zoo we run into Jeff,Paula, and Brock. Small world. Then as we are talking, seconds later, Kevin, Lisa, and Gavin come walking up to our group as well. I thought the Shelenbachs were with Jeff and his crew and Jeff thought they were with us, but nope, just a huge coincidence that we all were there at the same time. After visiting for a while we took the kids home. Even though we didn't go through everything at the zoo we now have the passes and plan on visiting more this summer.
More pictures of our zoo adventure can be seen here :
1 comment:
Sad for the family.
Apart from that, you had a great time and I'm happy to read about it. Thanks!
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