A couple weeks ago we scored some free tickets for both the African Safari Wildlife Park and Cedar Point, so we decided to take a little 2-day road trip as a fam. We left early Sunday morning for the Safari Park, stayed in a hotel that night, and spent Monday at Cedar Point. When we told friends we were planning on doing the Safari Park, we heard things like, “Only go if you’re already in …
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happy ZOO-iversary!!
On August 1, 2007, the girls and I went to the Louisville Zoo where we met my friend Gail for the very first time. On August 1, 2008, our whole fam headed back to the Louisville Zoo with Gail and her fam. We didn’t know it at the time, but that trip would mark Zoo #1 of 52. On August 1, 2009, we partied with 150 of our closest friends and family at Zoo #52, …
celebrating God’s great green earth
Happy Earth Day!! This isn’t a holiday I typically go nuts over or anything, so I don’t have any big plans, but I intend to thank God multiple times throughout the day today for His amazing, gorgeous, incredible, phenomenal, stunning, inspiring creation. Wowzers. Thank you, God, for creating such a beautiful place and letting us live here and take care of it. Speaking of creation, my friend, Cheryl (who I met online and then face-to-face …
missing texas
Last year at this time I was freaking out about our taxes and praying my eyeballs out that we’d still get to do the Texas leg of our Zoo Trip. This year, I’m freaking out about taxes (not really–just finished at 12:20 am!) and wishing we were headed to Texas! God worked out every single detail last April, and while we loved every bit of our Zoo Adventure, there was just something crazy-special about the …
she muchly hearts giraffes
I’ve never participated in one of Kelly’s “Show Us Your…” deals, but this time I thought, what the hey? And I’m a day late, but what the hey? I heart giraffes! Here’s me in my new Land’s End giraffe tunic that some anonymous darling person sent me in the mail yesterday. The zip code on the postmark was 14424, and after some google sleuthing, I know you live in or near Canandaigua, NY. Whoever you …
