Sunny Sunday

We packed our day with sunshine and a lot of tramping around, by heading to the zoo first thing this morning. There we met with Spilly's good friend Simon and Simon's mother. It was "Teacher Day," so Simon's Mom and I got in free. Love getting into things free!

Spills hasn't been to the zoo in several months. It was interesting to see the change in her from the last time we were there. She and Simon roared around the place pretending to be orangutans and mandrills and gibbons. They clip-clopped back and forth in front of the grizzly bear's den, trying to make the sleeping bear think they were deer so it would wake up and try to eat them. They made blubbing sounds at the fish. They also insisted on jointly pulling the wagon that we'd brought along, which made us all wonder why we'd brought it in the first place.

After the zoo, it was home for bike riding in the beautiful late-afternoon sunshine. I took my bike around the neighbourhood, narrowly missing numerous street-hockey and soccer games. Spills and her Daddy set off with her new bike and had made it laboriously about three-quarters of the way around the block by the time I got back. I hung out with them the rest of the way.

When we went back inside, I got online and booked our camping weekends for the summer. We'll be going to three different provincial parks--Craigleith, Kilbear and Earl Rowe. Of the three, we've only been to Earl Rowe before, so it should be a fun new experience to try the other two parks.

All in all, a very peaceful family day. Which may well prove to have been the calm before the storm, as Spills has started sneezing explosively....