We had planned to attend a picnic for Nate's work that was held at the zoo this past Saturday. When we left our house it started pouring rain. Not wanting to give in to a little rain storm, I kept talking Nate in to waiting the heavy rain out. But when we got to the park entrance to where the zoo is, we were surprised to find hundreds of cars - bumper to bumper - waiting for ??? The zoo? Who would want to go to the zoo on a day like this?! There were drenched men directing traffic and kids in strollers, people with small children, walkers or oxygen tanks, all carrying grocery bags, meandering in the rain around the cars to a large white tent. After about 10 or 15 minutes of wondering why so many people were at an open park in torrential downpour and frequent lightning, we finally found out that the tent had something like a free farmers market. Since we were still only by the entrance and had many more people, cars and directors to go through before we could even see the entrance to the zoo, we decided that we would just turn around, give up on our picnic and head somewhere else a little more dry and a little less crowded.
We had wanted to go to the art museum sometime during the summer and it was close by. They had a new Egypt exhibit that none of us had seen. I got in trouble for using my flash (Actually, I forgot it was on) for the picture of the kids and the horse made of mud and grass but the picture of the female mummy turned out pretty creepy and kind of cool.
We had planned to attend a picnic for Nate's work that was held at the zoo this past Saturday. When we left our house it started pouring rain. Not wanting to give in to a little rain storm, I kept talking Nate in to waiting the heavy rain out. But when we got to the park entrance to where the zoo is, we were surprised to find hundreds of cars - bumper to bumper - waiting for ??? The zoo? Who would want to go to the zoo on a day like this?! There were drenched men directing traffic and kids in strollers, people with small children, walkers or oxygen tanks, all carrying grocery bags, meandering in the rain around the cars to a large white tent. After about 10 or 15 minutes of wondering why so many people were at an open park in torrential downpour and frequent lightning, we finally found out that the tent had something like a free farmers market. Since we were still only by the entrance and had many more people, cars and directors to go through before we could even see the entrance to the zoo, we decided that we would just turn around, give up on our picnic and head somewhere else a little more dry and a little less crowded.
We had wanted to go to the art museum sometime during the summer and it was close by. They had a new Egypt exhibit that none of us had seen. I got in trouble for using my flash (Actually, I forgot it was on) for the picture of the kids and the horse made of mud and grass but the picture of the female mummy turned out pretty creepy and kind of cool.
2 comments:
that rain saturday was unreal!!
glad to see you back in the blog loop :)
The art museum looks fun. I wouldn't want to go through the zoo in the rain either. It's not worth wet, sick kids.
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