Como Zoo

First visit of the year to the Como Zoo today. Avery had a lot of fun even though most of the animals were sleeping when we saw them (monkeys, lions, wolves...everyone, snoozing). We went to the kids theme park area and went on some rides, most of which she had fun on as per usual but we tried out the "driving school" which is like go carts for small kids and she didn't fare so well. The guy tried to help her (as you'll see in the pictures) but she wasn't having it, and ended up in tears. We quickly went to the swings to remedy that. She finished up with a giant rainbow sucker and her day was good. Grandma and Grandpa were leaving for a retirement party when we got home, but Grandpa had some time to swing her in the backyard after lunch.

The pictures are also up from Easter. I have a bunch for the month of April. I've even uploaded them in decent time increments, even with a failing external hard drive!

Easter 2009

Well this weekend I went snowboarding up in Lutsen, MN. Its close to the Canadian border, about 20 miles from Grand Marais. It was 7 people and myself, and I rode up with my friend Nick from South Dakota. He had never gone before so I had to teach him, but I'm not the worlds greatest myself, so it was kind of hard. I got a horrible sunburned face on Saturday, and bought some sunscreen for Sunday to save it from even worse. But when I woke up this morning my forehead was swollen. Thats a new one for me, and I've had many a sunburn. Its quite uncomfortable to say the least.

Anyway since I was gone for Easter, we had the egg hunt today in the backyard. Cece came over as per usual for Mondays, and my mom picked up Tierney for the day and to spend the night. They had a lot of fun, and after Cece left we all went to dinner at Acupulco. Shoe shopping followed, and then home to look at their Easter baskets. I had gotten Avery Barbie in Swan Lake so they watched that before bed.

Over all, a good, fun day for the kids, but a slightly tiring one for me. Having a sunburn always leaves you feeling pretty pooped and I'm really not looking foward to the walk on the treadmill I'm going to do after writing this. Oh well right? Then I can go to bed! And of course back to work tomorrow =(

Walker Art Center

Today was Avery's Easter egg hunt at the church she has bible study at. We got there at 10:00 and started off with a story, then hunted for eggs, then made some crafts. She had fun, but was being kind of shy. I actually ran into my freshman math teacher then Ms. Peterson. She got married while I was still in school and I can't remember her married name. But now she has 4 kids and she's a stay at home mom! She has a 4 year old too named Mya. Avery kind of said hi to her, but not really. Stinker. It was neat to see her again, so many years later.

After that we headed to Ruby Tuesday for lunch, after that it was off to the Walker. I needed to see a painting and do a paper on it for my Humanities class. I found one I like from the Elizabeth Peyton exhibit, but I needed something to take home with me to remember what it looked like, and since I couldn't take a picture of it, I bought a postcard of a different painting by her and I'll work off of that. Avery made a big picture in the craft area and we got a little doll from the gift shop, that is really cute. There were a few things that I wanted to get, but they're all fairly pricey. Momiji: favourite person is the doll she got. The website is lovemomiji.com its actually really cute stuff. These were called "celebration dolls". Anyway the pictures are up- enjoy!