My good and patient friend Jennifer invites me to a lot of things. I usually have a ton of excuses (usually the stress of handling the children on my own or the expense of such and such) as to why it’s not feasible at that particular time.
She hasn’t given up on me and we managed to do a few fun things this year. The first being a viewing of an awesome production of The Wizard of Oz at her local high school and the second being a trip to Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Quebec. I shocked her by agreeing to go.
We had amazing weather that day and I think the kids had fun. Mine are super spoiled, so they expect the sun, the moon and the stars. It’s not my idea of a good time sans kids, but hey I got out of the house and spent a nice day with four lovely gals.
Here’s a slideshow from that day. Sorry about all of the boring animal photos mixed in between. I am so not an animal person. Having them stick their long scary heads into the car and not pulling them back out promptly, scared the hell out of me.
Posted by BookMama on June 21, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Wow, that’s awesome! Looks like the kids all had a great time. Love the pic where they’re all holding hands.
Posted by Nina on June 22, 2009 at 8:05 am
That’s awesome (and scary) the animals just rome around and come up to your cars. The pointy horn cows (?) looked a bit too close for comfort. Yikes!
Posted by Jolene on June 22, 2009 at 9:26 am
Yes, the driving through the wild animals part of the park was my least favorite as a kid and it remains the same now. At least they don’t have the monkeys roaming around free anymore. They used to jump on your car and poop and rip wiper blades and antennas off. So there’s that.
And Nina, yeah, the cows with the pointy horns – one of them was the animal that wouldn’t back out of the car on my side. I kept my hand on the power window button just in case. Evil Jennifer locked my window open a few times
Posted by Aunt Cindy on June 22, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Looks like everyone had a great time! It is nice to see you and Jennifer can get out with the kids and have a fun day. It is strange though, to see Ashley watching over the little ones and being so close to animals. She had such a fear when she was younger. I can just hear you yelling at Jen to unlock the window. That’s funny!
Posted by Jennifer on June 24, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Yes, it was a nice day. I’ve learned over the years to block out her yelling. Makes things much easier.