On Saturday, Dan and I had the pleasure of going to the zoo with the Lowrance family. It's a good thing that Sam and Shanelle invited us to come with them, because the nice weather we were having on Friday had gotten Dan on a kick. Specifically, a "Why don't we go to the zoo, Haley? Huh? Huh?" kick. When Dan gets on one of these kicks, he's hard to distract, so it was pretty much inevitable that I was going to end up taking my own child to the zoo. At least this way, we were able to pretend that we were two of the adults on the trip, and not two of the kids. Or, at least, that's what I pretended. Dan did a pretty fair impression of a small child, racing along ahead of the rest of us with Annabelle, calling all of us to hurry up. In fact, Dan and Annabelle even started to sound alike after a while. Annabelle would say "Mommy Mommy! Look at the giraffe!" and Dan would say "Haley! Haley! Look at the zebra!" I did learn something useful on this trip, which is that when Dan and I have kids, I am NEVER going to the zoo without him. By the end of the day, I was shuffling along with aching legs and a dazed, somewhat sunburned look on my face, and Dan was still saying "But we haven't been to the Africa exhibit yet! Come on!" I also realized that it is much more fun to go to a kid-geared place with kids. They just get so excited. Enjoy some photos from our excursion.

Shanelle and Annabelle enjoy the flamingos. Annabelle considered it her bound duty to inform us, repeatedly, that the flamingos were "Pink! Pink!"

If you look at it just right, Sam and Annabelle look like their own weird kind of giraffe.

A nice break by the goldfish pool.

The maniac toddlers. Yes, both of them.

Below, we present the three stages of Samuel "Little Man" Lowrance.

First stage: "Bring on the animals!"

Second stage: "Aww, mom, can I keep him?"

Third stage (late in the day): "Zzzzzzzz." I was sympathizing with his exhaustion by this point.