Friday, March 26, 2010

Today is the last weekday of spring break. I was going to call it a bittersweet day, but I can't actually find the sweet in it - just bitter. I could happily partake of another week or two of time home with my family, taking life at a slower pace. So far this week, L and I have cleaned house, cleaned out closets, gone to the Hutchinson Zoo, the Wichita Zoo, and today we went to Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard. We have taken the cousins to see "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movie, and played at Grandpa & Grandma's house. I feel like the week has flown by, and I'm sad that I don't feel more refreshed from the time off. However, we had an amazing time at Tanganyika today. I was upset because my camera's batteries ran out not long after we got there. I had brought along some new, freshly charged batteries, and for some reason they didn't work. And the gift shop was out of AA batteries. So no photos. However, I realized how much more "in the moment" I was during our day when I wasn't photographing - much more invested in the activities. Life lesson. We got to hand-feed lemurs, feed the giraffes little pellets (although they wouldn't let us pet them!), feed the lorikeets little containers of juice (L got nipped by one!) and L fed the rabbits, too. We saw mama gibbons with tiny babies, baby penguins, red pandas, and, my personal favorite, the clouded leopard. If spring break has to end, this was a good note to go out on.