Woodland Park Zoo

A week and a half ago we went to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle with some new friends. Surprisingly it went well considering nobody got a nap, and I'm not just talking about me! Hahahaha! I was glad I wore comfortable shoes because we did A LOT of walking.

It was a little chilly so Alillia spent the first quarter of our day in a front carrier zipped up with Nick in his jacket.

Here are a couple of cute animals while waiting for Daddy to buy tickets:

Next we checked out the Penguins:

There was copious amounts of bird doo doo all over the rocks.

Here we have turtle soup- uh, I mean turtles which are floating in murky water with a bunch of vegetables... 

Holding hands, awww how cute!

This gorilla was posing for us:

Gage flirting:

And then my camera died about a quarter into our trip.  I tried to use my phone...which sucks. So, unfortunately, unless I get some stuff off of Tekara's phone this is pretty much it.  We got to see quite a bit of animals though.  We saw brown bears, arctic wolves, elephants, hippos, giraffes, flamingos, giant snakes, lions and a lot of other things. The park was quite large so we didn't get to see everything but we're hoping to go again soon! Maybe next time I'll double check my camera battery before going!!!

Whip it! Whip it good!

Gage has been interested in wearing hats per Aviendha's desire to constantly wear one. He's worn her hats, buckets, baskets, clothes, ect on his head. Recently we kept seeing dirt in his hair from incidents like this:

This is what happens when Aviendha and Gage play together. But we weren't seeing this so we were wondering what exactly he was doing to get bits of dirt all over in his hair.

Then I caught him wearing this:

This is from a hanging plant we used to have inside. Nick threw it out back to put in the trash later or use again. 

My first thought? "Whip it! Whip it good! When a problem comes along, You must whip it!...."  Hahahaha! Music aside, it solved the case of a chronically dirty scalp.

Oh well, I think he's pretty dang cute either way!

Flooding

After our basement flooded in March we were told that it usually doesn't rain like that and so even if the drainage in the back yard isn't fixed, it shouldn't be a problem.


And then a couple of weeks ago we had this insane downpour where lake and waterfall were formed in mere minutes. Ignore our messy yard.

Fortunately nothing came into the house and it only lasted 15 minutes or so. But two weeks later here we are with a lawn that is STILL trying to dry out. We're hoping that nothing happens for rest of our lease time because I really don't want to try to move again so soon.