"Enjoy your farn"

The recovery wasn't as quick as I had hoped. I ended up taking Caleb back to the doctor on Friday. Dr. D was kind enough to inform me that this flu can last from 7-10 days. Friday was day #5. That news did not excite me very much. Lucky for us though, Caleb slept the entire night Friday night and we all woke up feeling tons better on Saturday.

To celebrate our feeling better we all went to Boulder. Aaron had a meeting with some guy that sells bamboo for woodworking. The kids and I did not go that meeting. We, instead, took that hour to eat breakfast and walk through the pet store. These kids love to walk through the pet store to look at the fish, birds, and mice. We were even lucky enough to see some kittens. When Aaron finished his meeting he picked us up and we proceeded with an impromptu tour of Boulder.

We went to a sculpture garden and a privately owned art museum. The sculptures were all done with brass and were huge. The kids were able to climb on some of them. They both enjoyed running around and climbing. Inside the museum were a bunch of paintings and smaller sculptures. Campbell did a scavenger hunt. She had to locate 20 items that she would find in the art work. It was a really fun way to kill an hour. We then headed over to the tea factory. I'm sure you have all seen the Celesti*al Season*ings tea in your local grocery store. The tea is apparently made in Boulder, CO. We wanted to tour the plant but Caleb couldn't go in. No one under 5 was allowed. Instead we just did the tea sampling and bought some goods from the store.

After those two small adventures we had lunch and walked through an outdoor shopping mall. Then we headed home. We decided to take the more scenic route. It just made for a very nice Saturday afternoon drive. We even went up to Idaho Falls. We got to see some beautiful frozen waterfalls along the way.

We knew the weather on Sunday was suppose to be beautiful. Because of that we decided to go to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. We were up and out of the house by 9am. )On the way there Campbell spilled a cup of hot cocoa in her lap so she got to walk around the zoo with a big brown stain on her khaki capris. Nice!) We arrived at the zoo around 10 and started our walk. This zoo is on top of a mountain so we definitely got our exercise walking around. The first stop was the giraffe exhibit. This is no ordinary giraffe exhibit. Here you get to actually feed the giraffes. The kids absolutely loved this! We spent about 30 minutes and $5 on feeding the giraffes. It was a lot of fun, I have to admit. Caleb was afraid to feed the big ones, but he did attempt feeding the baby giraffes.

The zoo had all the normal animals you would expect to see at the zoo. In addition, they had a petting zoo. Really the only thing you could pet were the goats. Caleb was all over this. He had a great time petting the goats. As we were leaving the petting zoo he said, "Bye bye doats. Enjoy your farn!" (When saying farm or barn he combines the two words and calls it a farn.) It was so very cute.

They had a nice gorilla exhibit. We got to see the baby gorilla riding on his mommy's back. The kids both thought that was very cute. Aaron got to see the daddy gorilla throw up and then eat it. Thankfully, the kids and I didn't see it but we did get to hear about it. Aaron also asked the zoo keeper about it. Apparently some gorillas do this when they eat something they really like. They like it so much that they want to taste it again. So there you go, folks. You learned something today.

We had a really great time at this zoo and plan to go again in the summer. (We will leave it at that and not tell you all about how poorly behaved the kids were today. They were decent at the zoo but the rest of the day...oh my!)