Spoiled Rotman: Happy Friday!

I'm sure no one will read this on Friday, but Happy Friday! We have had an interesting week recovering from our vacations and work-cations (Mark, obviously). Before heading out for a long weekend in Savannah with Aunt Lisa and her friends, I threw my back out for the first time. Why share this little detail? Well, it has meant that Anna and I have not visited the gym since then... which makes for an interesting time keeping her entertained at home. She is usually okay at home for a fairly long time, but once you have hit up all the outdoor play equipment, the baby pool, chalk, bubbles, Elmo, the ball pit, rode every moving item in the house, all before 10AM... well, someone gets cranky. I won't tell you if it is me or Anna...

So, after a couple mornings at home and Mark working late one night, I decided it was time to get out and go somewhere. I have had an itch to go to either Zootastic or the Lazy 5 Ranch lately- both are very close to our house and have lots of animals for Anna to see. Being that Lazy 5 is best driven through or on a hay ride, I opted for Zootastic. Daddy was sad he couldn't come along, but there will be more visits! Zootastic is about ten minutes away, and I was blown away when we turned in and saw that there are wild animals so close to our house! Overall, the setting wasn't super impressive, but they were doing construction, because as the owner told me, "they are between summer crowds and school groups". Oh, and we were one of two visitor groups there, which meant we got to practically pet a baby lion. I think Anna thought it was a pet, but since it was running around the gift shop... who is to say it wasn't?

Okay, enough words, more pictures...

"Oh, hey Tiger!"

"Did you know there was a playground over there?"

Just hanging out next to a giraffe... No big deal.

She really wanted to touch the goats. I blame Richard.

"What's up Camel?"

We also took a field trip to the library! Before we left the house, I asked Anna if she wanted to go to the library to read books, to which she replied enthusiastically, "YEAH!". Much better than the adorable but trouble "no" with a headshake that she has used as her answer for everything the past week. She had a blast, and kept going back to an Elmo peekaboo book... surprise!