Meg's summer break officially started on Wednesday, but she didn't make it home until yesterday. She had stayed in Bloomington to work a few shifts at Bell Trace and clean her apartment before heading home. She did have some fun on those two days as Nick came down from West Lafayette and Brett came over to take a walk with her as well. She arrived in Syracuse yesterday afternoon and already had a list of activities planned for the week.
Fortunately for our family Meg left the weekend open for us. Today, we were finally able to visit the Fort Wayne Zoo after a year hiatus due to COVID. Before 2020 Cameron, Meg and I had taken an annual trip to the children's zoo since 2013. Normally, we chose a weekday for the activity, but with summer school and tennis we couldn't make that work. Therefore, we picked a Saturday. That allowed Doug to join us. Meg let him know that he should feel privileged as we had never left anyone else go with us. Since he was paying, it was an easy addition to our party.
As soon as Cameron arrived home from Samuel's triathlon this morning, we headed to the zoo. It was a little bit more crowded than in years past, but that didn't affect our plans too much. Cameron and Meg were still able to ride the Skyfari and we were all able to take a walk through Africa as well. Asia had a little less people and we enjoyed the orangutans and rain forest just as much as in past trips. Meg and I chose big pretzels as our snack before we left the walkway.
Australia was by far the most crowded. Cameron bypassed the ice cream stand due to long lines and in the end we gave up riding the log ride. It traditionally was our favorite one, but the queue to get on was just too long. The train wasn't running today, so we figured that everyone headed to the wooded flume instead. Thankfully, we were still able to walk through the outback and visit the aquarium without any issues. On the way out we toured the farmstead and saw the pigs getting the silent treatment for behaving badly. Meg and I thought that was really funny. Cameron was pleased to find some Dippin' Dots on the way out for his zoo snack.
Bringing Doug along was a bonus as he added two more activities to our zoo trip today which we all appreciated. The first was ordering Giordano's pizza for our dinner at home. Second, was a round of miniature golf at Paige's Crossing. The pizza was delicious and we all had fun at mini-golf especially when Cameron almost blew a five stroke lead on the last hole. Fortunately, he held on to win by one and had a great story to tell afterward. The rest of the night was a quiet one which we all enjoyed after a full day of fun.
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