Day 45

Shall I start by saying it has been an interesting day... Not bad per se, but interesting... First off, I forgot my camera this morning. However, I still took some photos throughout the day using the camera in my phone. I almost felt lost without my camera in my pocket all day, but having some photos was better than none at all for me, especially considering some events of the day.

So, I'm working before care this week as you may have caught on. I'm actually working early shift for the rest of the summer. Anyways, this morning Dawson, a 3rd or 4th grader, asked to play Monopoly, which I said I would. Wow! He was quite the banker. He knew exactly what was going on. I was impressed, and it made for a fun game of Monopoly.

Went on our tour of the Discovery Center today. Here was my little group - Pantera, Ezra, Owen, Benji, and Elijah:

The animal presenter brought the tiger salamander and ornate box turtle for us to see. We made jelly fish today for craft using paper bowls, crayons, and tissue paper. Then, we rode the train after lunch. Addy and Matt sat with me.

 Then, I headed with the 5th and 6th graders at 1:00 again. First thing was a special tour of the Australia exhibit with one of the keepers. Learned a few new things on this tour. I took this photo because he had pointed out that the kookaburras inside were the parents, and the ones in the outside portion were their offspring. He also showed us some of the wallabies that are currently inside the station here, and we were told that eventually there will be 10 bachelor wallabies out by the train, and there will be 40 wallabies running around in the Australia exhibit itself. Wow! That sounds like a lot to me. Wonder if I'll get to see that before I move...

Then, the 5th and 6th graders rode the train this afternoon. So here I go again, and Maddie sat with me. Two train rides in one day with completely a completely different group of campers.

Then, we stopped by the Japanese Macaque exhibit because they usually do some sort of animal enrichment at 2:00. One of the keepers brought some banana and was feeding it to the monkeys, and she pointed out the alpha female and alpha male to us and talked a little bit about them. In this photo  took, the alpha female is in the bottom left hand corner; then, the alpha male is in the bottom right hand corner.

After snack, we headed to the classroom where we worked on the craft project for the day - stained glass hangings. I remember doing quite a few of these when I was their age. They also played this zookeeper game... sort of a role-playing mystery game.

Alright, so I clock out at 4:15pm, head out to the parking lot to find myself a tire flat as a pancake. "Really?", was the first thought I had. I should have taken this photo from a better angle, but you get the idea.

I totally could have changed it myself, but I figured we have AAA for times like this. So I called, and when the guy got there it turns out that I was missing part of my crank to lower the spare tire. He had to towed it to the nearest tire shop for me, which is where my Mountaineer is spending the night. Wow... crazy how I've had my vehicle for 5 years and haven't had a flat tire on it until now. It didn't really bum me out or put me in a bad mood cause things happen, and I felt fortunate that I was just in the parking lot in the zoo rather than in the middle of the road. Here's to another life experience, I guess :-)

One of my friends from work gave me a ride back home, where Averee's dad had made goulash and home made bread. I was quite impressed that he made the bread himself, so had to take a photo for the blog. haha Good stuff, by the way.