the zoo & trip home

Well, somehow these ended up in backwards order,

 but Tuesday, Brody was not feeling so hot and didn't sleep well at all the previous night.

We think he may have been a little constipated from being sedated, which, mixed with switching to 2% milk only from whole, may have been too much for his little tummy at once. :(

Poor little buddy had a rough night and morning, but got in a good loooong mid-day nap, and we decided to venture out once we knew his body was seemingly back to normal.

We made it to Como Zoo Park just in time for their last hour of being open! We walked around and checked out a few of the animals, then made our way back to the Mall of America for some supper and actually do some shopping instead of rides.

Wednesday, our plan was to get up, packed, and going on the road as soon as the boys are up. Thinking we'd probably be on the road by 7:30 or 8 am.

The boys must have heard us discussing and decided to sleep in until 8:30. This is simply unheard of activities for the Voeller boys!!!!! Only happens when it'd be the ONE ACTUAL NICE time to be up early. So, we didn't get on the road until 9:30ish, and having to stop a couple of times for Brody to work some things out of his system again, made for a somewhat long trip home.

We stopped at a rest area to get out and move around, work those legs, and ease some of Brody's discomfort. Both boys were glad to have some time to run around outside.

Tree huggers

Major tree huggers

Dane, proud of his sticks.

I made a 'T'!

witching for water!

Zoo pictures, by the giraffes!

Better view of the giraffe!

Sign about the animals from the Minot zoo! How neat!

Last year at this time, we were here, but had no idea until later that there were Minot animals evacuated to Como Zoo. We gave the bears an update on the Magic City.

Brody, in the polar bear cave. He refused to crawl, instead bent over and scraped his back and head on the ceiling of the cave. Couldn't have hurt too much as he didn't complain of his surgery site hurting!

At the rest stop, playing some unrealistic catch....come on, seriously, can you 2 throw THAT far???

:)