Caleb's birthday came early this year. Rather than a gift that we have to store... Grammy and Papa Dahl got Caleb a really awesome zoo membership (for the family& bring guests) that can be used unlimitedly for the next 10 months. We broke it in with a trip to the zoo today joined by Tessa, Grammy and Papa.

The rain broke about an hour into our excursion into the park. Which worked out fine since the first thing we did was visit the new penguin exhibit and then duck into the indoor Day/Night exhibit. The Day/Night exhibit is closed forever starting Monday, so it was a real blessing to visit it one last time before it's closed and the animals scattered. We also got to view the 9 month old snow leopard cubs. Caleb made Bug World a must see, and Jockey signed up for the kangaroos. (Caleb made the astute comparison today that Kangaroos are like T-rexes with little arms and big back legs.) We were at the zoo for about 4 hours and walked ourselves tired. Then it was bad to the club for a swim with Tessa. We are finally home and ready for a calm down.

That's all for now. I'm beat.