California Vacation Day 2-The Zoo and When Mama Got Rich

The next morning everyone wanted to go for a swim after breakfast.  

 

 

Sarah's sister Sadie came along with them on the trip, and she was SUCH a big help to all of us.  Neely really loved her and wanted to "hold that other girl's hand" everywhere we went.  She was really good with the kids and made our jobs a lot easier.  Especially whenever water was involve, with all these little folks around.

 

 I didn't feel like swimming so at first Reed was hanging out with me.  

He clearly wanted in though, so I changed him into his trunks and gave him to Jess.

 After swimming, we headed to the zoo.

We're all fans of pandas, especially Cason, so our family had made that our goal, and the Cassons seemed happy to go along with that.  So we headed that direction, seeing whatever we could on the way.  It was a nice little workout, for those of us who aren't in good shape(me).  

Not much to say about the zoo that you wouldn't guess, so here are a bunch of pictures instead.

We had some tired little people at the end of the day.  A couple of them slept right through souvenir shopping.

We met Noel and Michael for mexican food afterwards, and I was a failure and took no pictures.  We let the kids run free for a bit after, and I only took pictures of the children apparently, so you'd never know the rest of us were there.  Ha.

We all headed for our hotels after that.  Ours that night was downtown.  It was a really nice and really old hotel.  

I loved it.  We had mints on our pillows and robes, and all the fixin's.  Ha.  I pretended to be fancy, and Cason was messing around on my phone, glanced up at me just as Jess took my picture, looked BACK at the phone and said, all casually, "you should call that one:  "Mama got rich."  Haha!  That had me cracking up.  Crazy fellow.

Then Neely got rich.