Fun Day

Now that we are into the swing of Fall semester, Charlie and I only have one morning a week that is utterly free of any weekly scheduled activity.  On Thursdays we can choose to do anything we want to!  Last Thursday we met our friends Ashley and Nathan (‘Nay-nay’) to explore the Children’s Zoo.  It is free if you get there before 10am.  Which is quite easy to do considering we have an alarm clock named Charlie that wakes us up at 6:30 every morning.  We had such a good time that I forgot to take many pictures, but here are a few from our escapades.  

Here are the boys, sitting on frogs, totally fascinated by people watching.It was only 70, and the water was very cold, but Charlie was undeterred.  Every time he went through a fountain he hugged himself and yelled back at us, “code”  (cold)!  Nathan was much wiser about keeping his clothes on and staying dry!There was also a goat-petting area.  We lost track of Nathan and Ashley entirely once Charlie realized there was so much work to be done.   He petted the baby goats.  He tried to feed the goats  a rock….that was a hard concept to grasp, for some reason.  “Goats don’t eat rocks?”“Well if the goats won’t eat it, I guess I’ll eat it then!”  (Followed by a horrified, “Charlie, take that out of your mouth!”  from his Mama—there were goat droppings all over!)And, once we found the basket of brushes, Charlie was very enthusiastic about getting those goats brushed!   They were such docile animals!  We rounded out the morning with some spelunking.  Then Nathan got very very wet in a waterfall, but sad to say, we were too busy laughing at it all to take a picture! All that to say, I love the St. Louis Zoo and I LOVE getting to spend time with Ashley and Nathan!