Saturday, November 24, 2007

Life's better on vacation

We took a mini-vacation this holiday weekend. This is the first time we've ever traveled on Thanksgiving. We went to Thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws then headed to Minneapolis. We've spend the last 2 days at the Minnesota Zoo. We have a membership there. What can I say? We are zoo-ies. We love zoos.

It was really nice having both days to take our time and get to see everything. We did the bird show and the dolphin show. We rode the monorail. We got to see the shark feeding and the dive show. It has been very nice. And we got to take our time at the exhibits and not feel rushed.

In fact, not rushing seems to be the theme of the weekend. We did a little shopping the last two evenings after the zoo closed and amid the crowds and people, I didn't feel rushed or even uncomfortable. I usually panic with that many people around. But since I didn't have to get home to make dinner or work or clean, it didn't matter. I found a new pair of jeans. Violet and Mr. Incredible both found sleepwear (very different styles and patterns though, don't worry).

Tonight we stopped at a Target to get juice boxes and microwave popcorn for a snack at our hotel. We got a few other things too. Including 2 sweaters I snuck out to the car for Violet as a gift from Super Grandma (Grandma had requested we do that if Violet fell in love with anything - she did).

Mr. Incredible and Violet are watching Shrek 3 on DVD on Mr. Incredible's computer. I am relaxing, catching up on e-mail and going to raid their pop corn soon.

I hope you are all having as enjoyable a long week as we are.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds better than bahumbugging! LOL

Fatcat said...

That sounds wonderful. I'm glad you're getting a nice break.

The Old Gray Mare said...

We love going to the zoo and history-type museums. Sounds like you had a lovely time.

SabrinaT said...

I was shocked to learn they had a wonderful zoo in Tokyo. They also have tons of aquariums, and 100's of theme parks. For Christmas we are taking the boys to see the snow monkeys.. We are zoo people to..