Road Trip

Today was our last mostly free Saturday until after pee-wee football season ends. Sport went in early this morning for weigh-ins, although why they didn’t just X him (make him a lineman) I have no idea. He would have had to lose at least 20 pounds to keep him off the line. So my sweetie dropped him off at the park and then headed over to work for a few hours of overtime while I tried to make up for some of the sleep I lost earlier this week. Baby Doll is teething again…need I say more?

I finally dragged myself out of bed about 10:30 because I thought I heard someone knocking on the door (it turned out to be the neighbors hammering something, I guess they didn’t know some of us were still trying to sleep). I checked the blog and read all of your nice comments (Thanks, I love the input!), and then texted my sweetie. After we traded a few texts, we determined that this was the perfect day for a road trip!

I packed a lunch, diaper bag, stroller, and the kids and then drove down to my sweetie’s company and picked him up. Then he took the wheel and I settled down for the 2-hour drive to Logan. We try to get up there every couple of years so we can show the kids where we lived and went to school when we were first starting out. We always stop for Aggie Ice Cream and we love a little zoo they have called Willow Park.

The Dog Walker - Peacocking!

We arrived just after 2:00 and headed directly for the park. Except that we got lost and drove all the way around it before we finally hit the entrance. The kids loved watching the monkeys and the turtles. Some kids were feeding the ducks but we dug through all our pockets and didn’t have a dime for the machine so we just watched them fight over the kernels tossed by the other kids.

The Old Coot

Princess remarked that the bald eagle looked a bit psychotic (exactly what I’d been thinking!). We giggled at some of the names, but my favorite was the American Coot. I made my sweetie pose with the sign since he’ll be 48 next week and I’m thinking that probably qualifies as an “Old Coot.”

The Dog Walker was fascinated by the peacock, but it didn’t matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get him to spread his feathers for us. The trees are amazingly tall and beautiful at Willow Park and they made the day pleasant in spite of the heat.

Pet Rocks!

After looking at all the animals (even the pet rocks), we headed to the playground. Then we loaded all the kids and took our campus tour of Utah State and ate ice cream. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 25 years, but we still recognized most things, except the right road to Willow Park. I hear some people get Alzheimer's as they get older...