I spent the afternoon, while the kids were napping, getting my hair done. The whole time I was watching the skies. It looked a lot like a typical spring afternoon. Storms were scattered over the city and moving around. In fact it rained while I was getting my hair done, but had cleared out by the time I was done. However, I came home and while we were getting dressed to go to the ball, it started raining again.
It was raining when we pulled out of the garage and it rained most of the way down the highway. However, it finally stopped raining about 3 miles away from my parents' house. And it looked nice and clear over the zoo, so we were hopeful.
We dropped off the girls with my parents and headed to the zoo. They had gone ahead and took the gamble to be outside with the giraffes. This was only for the cocktail hour, as was the plan the whole time. They have a silent auction, appetizers, drinks and animal visitors during the first part of the evening.
We started off by visiting with Tiger Lilly the skunk. She was out to say hello for the evening. They also brought out one of their HUGE turtles, who was also dressed for the evening with his giraffe bow tie.
We were also graced with the presence of a few baby wallaby's, Walter the bearded dragon, Radar the African Grey, and a few other animals here and there.
There was only one item we bid on for the silent auction. It was a print of a baby giraffe (from our zoo), and they had baby giraffe hoof prints on the mat around the picture. Well, this other couple outbid us at the last second. Good thing we have some connections, we asked if we could pay the same price they winning couple paid and we could get another print. Our good friend, who I was asking about this said: that's my picture! She had taken the picture of the baby giraffe, so she spoke with another girl and we are going to get our own picture with baby hoof prints. I can't wait!
Another perk was that they had stuff for us to feed the giraffes. Now as most of you know, you can purchase crackers and feed the giraffes. So we were expecting crackers to feed them. But not on this special night! We fed them lettuce leaves and elm branches! Those giraffes are a lot stronger than you can imagine! If you were daring enough to try to hold onto an elm branch while they ate off it, you had to hold tight! I only tried once, I mostly stuck to lettuce. Here we are over by the giraffes:
The giraffes were a riot. The "juveniles", as the keepers called them, were running around like crazy. Even the new babies got into it! They were so cute! It was the first time I have seen them out in the main yard. I was loving every minute of it!
The evening was still chilly. We moved up to the Moose Lake Lodge for dinner. While we were in there, the rain moved in. Good timing! Here we are at our super yummy dinner! The food was wonderful as usual.
After dinner we wandered over to the new Grizzly Grill. They served several desserts over there, and they too, were fabulous.
So, after much food and good times, we finally headed out. We picked up the girls who of course were sleeping at my parents house, and headed for home. I so love the zoo ball, every year.
Other than that, it's been pretty standard around here. Well, except for yesterday. Hubby was supposed to fly to London for the week, and wouldn't you know that the Iceland volcano caused the airports to close. His flight from Denver (it was direct to London) was canceled. He ended up getting up early this morning, driving to Denver, and flying Denver to Toronto, then Toronto to London. He was able to get on the plane in Toronto and should be landing in London in the next 45 minutes.
Had he been able to go on his original flight, he would have had plenty of time to try to get adjusted to the time and such. However, now he will end up going right from the airport to the client site. Sounds fun huh? Apparently Ireland has missed most of it recently, so my mom should be able to get there on Wednesday, and Hubby is flying up to catch up with her on Friday night. Yes, my Hubby and my mother will be hanging out in Ireland, without me...
So, we are adjusting to life with just us girls. I spent the morning while Courtney was at daycare running errands with Kasey. One of those errands was getting her another chest x-ray. Here's to really really hoping the cloudiness in her lungs has cleared up so she can be done with the breathing treatments, and we don't have to see a pulminologist. We should know tomorrow or the next day.
This morning while running errands I also stopped at Starbucks, which is a regular on my route. As I try to do once and a while (at least once a month if not more), I told the lady at the window I wanted to buy the drink for the car behind me. She must have been new. She was so excited that I was doing that, and asking me "do you know her?" I explained that no I don't know her, but it's something nice I try to do every so often. She was just tickled.
Well, it's getting late. I had better head to bed. Hope all of you are well!
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