Day 49

Well, since it will be kind of later nights for me this week, I think I will post about balloons before I go into what I did at the zoo. So, last night I was out at the balloon field again and things ran smoothly again. The balloon made it all the way across Hwy 65/69 last night, which was different. Landed in some land owned by the county. Brett, Tom's 3rd grade son, was my little buddy tonight. The first night I met him he was pretty quiet, but we were having a good time in the way back seat of the chase car. We were having a little water bottle sword fight, and then I told him I was going to tackle him once we got outside. After that, he threw some grass on me. hahaha

At the zoo today, we started our second Prehistoric Pals camp. As you know, the dinosaurs are pretty popular with the kids. We have a full 24 kids starting out in the morning, and after 1:00 still have 12 of them. Three campers are repeats from other weeks - Chance, Eli, and Oliver P.

We learned about the three main dinosaur periods (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous), fed the fish, visited the dinosaurs, took our group and individual photos, and worked on our craft bags.

This afternoon one memorable thing happened during some Simon Says. When I said, "I'm Simon, Chance said back, "and we are Says." hahaha

So, the balloon didn't go up this morning... too much wind up above, and not sure if we're going to be able to get it up tonight. Guess we'll see.