Last Hurrah

We decide to take a trip to Des Moines before school started this past Monday. So Thursday after Trav was done with inservice we loaded up the van and headed to Panora. We stayed with Aunt Tina and Uncle Randy. We hadn't seen this house that they are living in so it was fun to picture where they live. On Friday we had a relaxed morning and headed for the Blank Park Zoo midmorning. The girls loved it.

Here is Addi in action. This was the only hippo we saw, but what a fun way to get a drink. We took several drinks from here even though we had water bottles that would have worked just as well. Addi was brave enough to feed the goats and mules. Ella would take the pellets one at a time and throw them at the animals. She just couldn't understand why they weren't eating them.

Kole was such a trooper. He was in the stroller most of the morning and then he napped in the snugglie durng the afternoon.

Ella loved the giraffes. Funny thing was when asked what her favorite part of the zoo was she said the elephant. Only there wasn't a real elephant there. There was just a fake one the sprayed water. Which she wouldn't go near. Whatever!

After a long, hot day at the zoo we decided to explore Des Moines for a few more hours. We were trying to find Water Works Park because I remembered it being so cool as a kid. We didn't find it, but we did go see Principal Park home of the Iowa Cubbies! We were then blessed to have dinner with some good friends in Adel. Then Saturday we hung out with the Leib family until naptime and then had a nice quite drive home. It was a great short getaway before school started. Now they already have one week under their belts.