Behind

I am very behind in posts.  It has been a hectic weekend here.  We have been trying to get a lot of work done in the yard prior to our insane June.  Brian leaves tomorrow to go to Chicago and work for the Goodman for a week, then I head to Dallas for a week for the Oracle HR User Group conference, and then Brian goes back to Chicago and the Goodman for another week.  So needless to say, not much is going to get done around here for a while :)

Last weekend, however, we took one day to have some fun family time.  We went to a safari in Port Clinton, OH.  I have actually bought the passes quite a while ago on Groupon.  So we drove over and bought some food to feed the animals.  We got to feed them out of cups, grain and carrots.  We went around once and fed all of the aminals and learned that most of them did not like the grain much, except for the small deer like animals (I can't remember what all of the animals are called).  We also learned that the bison are very big and try to get their whole heads in the car.  Actually all of the animals tried to put their whole heads in the car, except for the giraffes and the zebras.  The problem was that the bisons' heads would take up pretty much the whole car if they got their head in.  Mackenzie decided that she did not like the bisons. 

When we finished the car ride we got out to see more animals in a walk-through section.  We couldn't feed any of them and the only cat (an ocelot) was in its house under the heat lamp.  However at the end of the trail there was a small park with swings, a slide, and a jungle gym shaped like a whale.  The kids enjoyed the park a lot, while we waited for the camel ride. 

 

This isn't a great shot, but I can't find the second camera to download the other pictures, so this is the best I have right now.  Mackenzie rode the camel alone first, and then Isaac was scared to get on.  There was another little boy that was scared and the people in charge told him he could ride with his brother.  After that Isaac decided that he would ride if Mackenzie rode with him, so Mackenzie got a second ride.

 

After the safari we went to a restaurant on the water where a lot of people were putting their (large) boats in the water. It was pretty cool to see them lifting the boats out of storage with a fork lift and then hauling them over to the water and setting them in.  Here is a shot of us waiting for our lunch as we enjoy the harbor:

 

I had to add this update.  Mackenzie and Isaac have both decided that they don't need naps on the weekends.  They tend to do okay without them, but they were extremely tired tonight after a very active weekend with no naps.  So we had some obstinence at bed time tonight and when Brian and I headed downstairs tonight, Isaac had his pillow and his quilt in his hands and insisted he was going to the chair.  I have (finally) learned that when my kids are that tired and stubborn just to go, so we went downstairs.  This is what I just found when I went upstairs to give the kids their final kiss and tuck tonight:

He had managed to put his bookmark in his Bible Stories before he fell asleep with the book on him :)