Most people see Memorial Day weekend as a chance to jump start their summer and take a mini-vacation. With gas prices around $3.50 a gallon, it doesn’t make sense for us to go anywhere because it costs too much. So our weekend has consisted of hanging out in our apartment watching season 2 of Grey’s Anatomy. (Cassie has gotten me into watching the show which I’m totally mad at her for doing.)
We are going to the zoo tomorrow. This is going to be Lily’s second trip to the zoo, but the first time she’ll be aware of the animals and actually care that she’s there. Cassie took her to the zoo with the Day Camp kids last summer when she was just a couple of months old but she slept through most of it. I’m sure we’ll be taking plenty of pictures, especially when we get to the children’s petting zoo. Cassie and I are hoping that she doesn’t pull or hit any of the animals and make them mad. The last thing we need is her to make a goat mad and have the thing go off on her. So we’re basically hoping for no traumatizing events while we are at the zoo.
I know I’m a couple of days late, but Happy Easter to everyone. I hope your Easter Sunday was as great as ours was. We had an awesome time on Sunday morning because the Creative Arts team at Tri-City did another spectacular job with the Easter presentation. I got to enjoy portions of the service twice because we attended on service at 10, and then Cassie worked in the nursery during the 11:30 service. This left me with a lot of time to kill. I worked on a video for Reality for a while and then caught the end of the service for a second time.
Cassie and I were lucky enough to have both Good Friday and Monday off. There’s nothing like a 4-day weekend to help recharge the batteries. The best part is that we’re both off this upcoming Friday and Monday when we go to Florida for my dad’s 50th birthday. I’m really excited to go down there because we don’t get to see my parents very often and because it’s Lily’s first time going to Florida. We’re going to have her swim in the Gulf of Mexico, which should be a lot of fun.
On a totally different note, there was a great report on Nightline last night about the country of Zambia in Africa. For those who don’t know, my grandparents were missionaries in Zambia during the Sixties and my dad spent 5 years there when he was a kid. Ironically, the report was filmed at the Salvation Army complex in Chkankata, Zambia, where my grandparents worked when they were there. It was cool for me to see what kind of place it is. I hope to be able to visit there some day. If you want to read about the story, click here.