The End of Zoo Days

As I mentioned, we tried to cheer Ella up during her Week of Sickness with the promise that a Weekend of Fun waited for her when she got better. We kicked it off with one last trip to the zoo before our membership expired. What was cool about this zoo outing was that we got to share it with Sara and Arend! Last summer, they won the bid on the family pass we donated to an auction and we'd been planning on visiting the zoo with them for some time now. These plans were set before the sickness hit, so this was a great starting point. We are especially excited to share family outings with Sara and Arend because their family will be growing in October! It's so fun to talk maternity clothes and sonograms and strollers with our expecting friends now!

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Our good friends are good people to share the the zoo with too! They also possess our awe and wonder for the animals and liked going at a nice slooow pace.

One animal highlight of this trip was the warthogs. They are usually hiding, but this time they were out and active! We laughed at Delia's own label for them-- "dinosaur dogs."

We've been to our Oakland Zoo about a dozen times now, but still keep finding new stuff. Here is a telescope you can use to view an actual fault line. A look through the pipe shows a real sight line of cracked rock, ground and trees.



Ella and Delia were all over our special friends and the snacks Sara kept hauling out of her bag to stave off that first-trimester nausea! As always, we enjoyed their company. We're glad our Year of Zoo could end on such a happy note and our Weekend of Fun could start on one!