Its Summer Time!

This was the last week of school and we are ready for summertime!  Our calendar is filling up quick, so when Liz asked about meeting up and going to the zoo this seemed like the best week for it.  Monday was the last full day.  Tuesday was the half day.  Wednesday was my last day (work took us to Outback, yummy!).  Thursday starts our summertime!

We decided on going to the zoo on Friday, but Liz lives in Paducah which is an hour and half from me, plus the next hour to Nashville.  I got the idea to spend the night in Nashville, Opryland Hotel has specials for Tennessee residents on Thursdays so Liz headed to our house Thursday afternoon where we then headed to Nashville.

After getting to Nashville we checked into the hotel and walked over to the mall. Marijka wanted to eat at Rainforest Cafe and my kids had no objections...they were all very excited about this.

After dinner the kids were very anxious to get to the pool.  Getting to the pool were were pleasantly surprised by the pool party going on.  The Madagascar characters were their to dance with and then afterwards the kids got to watch Shrek, Forever After while swimming!

The kids swam till 10 pm and were still wound up when we got back to the room so after getting ready for bed we walked around the hotel for a bit.  Liz decided to set an alarm clock, because we had to be at the zoo by 9.  Good thing she did, the kids slept in!  My kids do not normally do that so when the alarm went off and the kids were still asleep I was shocked.

 

We were meeting our cousins Messina and her children and Brooke and her children at the zoo.  Messina got stuck in traffic and was an hour late, while we waited the kids visited the monkeys and the playground, which they loved of course!  It was actually a good thing we visited the playground early, because it got hot very quick!

After meeting up with Messina and Brooke we headed to the Dino Trek, this was an exhibit that I had been wanting to see and I knew the kids would love.  It is only at the zoo till July so we had to see it on this visit since I don't know when we will be back!

This is a picture of all the kids...Messina has two Isabella and Carter, Brooke has two, Scarlett and William, Liz has one Marijka and of course my three!

 Sometimes, when you have four groups of people it makes it hard to do activities like these because everyone wants to do something different or no one can make a decision.  I did decide to buy a season pass, we just need to come back once and it will be paid for, that and Tanner was disappointed because we didn't get to see the elephants it was just to hot!  All in all, a pretty good day at the zoo! And a great visit with Liz and Marijka!