The Zoo!!

Well, today we went to the Washington Zoo for the first time. We got started about 0830. We travelled to the metro station at Shady Grove and then rode the metro for approx 30 min to the zoo. We originally went to meet some of my on-line friends from La Leche League. We have been setting up a meeting date for about 3months now. It was so great to finally meet them in person. Karen, Anthony, and their baby Anneliese, Lynda and her baby girl Lorelei, Kelly Ann and her baby girl Emily, Wendy, Ed, and their son Aaron and finally Leslie and her son Shilo were all there. It was really neat to meet the people that I have been talking too fro about a year now. They were all super nice. Jason and I did kind of sneak away at one point because we really actually wanted to see the zoo. They all went to get something to eat and we just kind of went on our way. We saw all kinds of neat creatures!! Isn't God neat?? He has such a personality. You go from these majestic Lions and tigers to the goofy looking hipo to the little prairie dogs. It's just amazing. The zoo was really nicely kept and fairly easy to get around. It was more walking than any of us had done in a long time. AJ really liked watching the sea lions. There was a place where you could watch them swim underwater. They were playing with each other and goofing around. They would come real close to the window and AJ would hit his head every time trying to get close to them. He was able to look at all the animals and he would study them pretty good but I don't think he was really able to understand yet what it all was about. Jason liked the monkeys. He was able to get some really good pics. I loved the toucan but Jason wasn't able to get a good pic of them. The lion was amazing. I just wanted to go down and scratch his belly. He was rolling around on the ground just as sure of himself as he could be. We saw some beavers too. Those things are freakin huge!! I didn't realize they were as big as they are. AJ only took him about a 10 minute power nap on the way to the metro and he did not go to sleep until it was time to leave. We were actually going to take him to the kiddie zoo and on the way he finally crashed. So we just turned around to leave. He slept all of 30 minutes while we made our way back to the metro and then he was up and ready to go again. He did not go back to sleep until 8:30pm that night. My little energizer bunny. I'll download the pics on fish and let you know. It really was a great day. We were worn out. My new friends (well old considering how long we've been talking to each other) but anyway, it was really so neat to be able to meet these people in person and Jason, AJ and I just had a good day in general. Little man is finally down for a nap today. Church really does wear him out. :)