Last summer, even before the boys came home, our kids were talking about the bwins' first zoo trip. We have talked and talked and talked. Finally, yesterday it was time to go. Here's how it went.
We blew a tire in our huge 15 passenger van at one of the busiest highway intersections in the whole state of Oklahoma. D did an amazing job of steering us off the bridge we were on and getting us to the side of the road. We sat there for quite a while. Finally, a taxicab showed up. The seven children (one extra) and I stuffed into the taxi and went on to the zoo while my dear husband waited on a tow truck to haul Big Red to a tire shop. (We had already used our spare.) 
 Once dad arrived, we saw the giraffes....  ...the elephants(from Dad's shoulders) ...  ...and the zebras. We had fun on the swings! (Boy, isn't having big sisters great?!) We took our yearly "this is how much we've grown this year" picture on the trusty old playground frog. (Aren't there more of us this year?)Wow! What a trip! When do we go again? |
Oh, what fun. I wished we lived closer to each other -- it would be great fun to meet up with our kids for fun outings like this. (Minus the flat tire, of course.)