Louisville Part 2

This will be another post without pictures because quite frankly I haven't figured out how to either get internet on my laptop or upload pictures from my grandpa's computer. I do have pictures, but I'll have to add them later.

Yesterday we had a full day of fun. Stacy and Paul drove up from Nashville to spend the day with us. Yes, they spent 6 hours in the car to spend 9 hours with us--they are just that great. We all (me, Nicholas, Grandpa, Stacy, and Paul) spent the morning at the zoo since it wasn't too cold out. Unfortunately a bunch of the exhibits were closed, but the animals who were visible were very active and close up, so we still got to see a lot.

The lions in particular were hilarious. There were two walking along the edge of the structure when we got there, and one kept looking off the edge down into the moat as though he was considering jumping. This was pretty entertaining as it was. Nicholas was just excited the animals were moving around (he kept remarking "lions walking!"). The rest of us were contemplating the lion's state of mind. After probably 5 minutes of this, when the one lion was peering over the edge again, the other lion reached out and shoved him, making him fall into the moat!!! It was scary for a second because the lion was falling and yelling/roaring, but lions are afterall just big cats and he gained his footing after a few feet and sort of ran down the moat wall the rest of the way. Our disbelief was moderated when we then discovered that there were lion size stairs going down on the other side and so he could have walked into the moat at any point (and back up), but the whole exchange was still pretty hilarious. And when you ask Nicholas what he saw at the zoo, his response is "lions whoa."

We had a good time and Nicholas kept shouting "more more zoo animals" as we walked between the exhibits. And then, about 1 minute after he yelled this as we were walking to the aquatic section, we looked down and he was out cold. And not just eyes closed resting but completely collapsed forward in his stroller. And, quite predictably, after he slept through the rest of the zoo, when he woke up as I transferred him into his carseat, he called out (while still half asleep), "more more zoo animals!"

We then had a fun afternoon at Grandpa's house and that evening two of my aunts, an uncle, and two cousins joined us for dinner. Nicholas had a little trouble at first because people showed up while he was napping and he woke up in a cranky mood, but he soon discovered he had an audience and was then in seventh heaven.