Vacation

Well Rich and I decided to take the 4 additional days after Memorial Day and take the boys on a day trip as well as do some major landscaping and house projects only to have some record breaking heat that week. As most people know, heat is not my thing! I work outside for 2 hours and have to come in for 2 hours so needless to say, half the jobs got accomplished.

We did however take the boys to Brit's Animal Kingdom in Burlington County which was really fun. The kids got to feed monkeys, llamas, giraffes, sheep, coyotes, wolves, pigs and some other stuff, they loved it. There were Chinese Crested hairless dogs walking around. They are so calm it's weird. Colin loved the pot bellied pig. He wanted all the balls in the animals cages but didn't throw a fit when he couldn't have them. He was content to just throw the feed or look at them. The animal feed had marshmallows, animal crackers, peanuts and fruit loops so the kids ate half of it. We had to buy a second bag so Sean could feed the giraffes which he spotted when we first got there and couldn't wait to see, he kept saying after each part, now do we see the giraffassess. We were cracking up. We had a good time. The kids seemed to really like it. From there we went to McDonalds with a playground and the kids loved it because they had it all to themselves. After that we stopped at Uncle Danny's to say hello to Grandmom Pagnotta and jump on the trampoline. They slept the whole way back home.

The trip to Animal Kingdom was quite an experience for us. Sean is such a trip! Rich was driving and Colin dropped his bottle, so I unbuckled my seat belt and reached for his bottle when Sean said, " I think you better put your seat belt back on Mom Mom or you are going to get arrested. I think I hear the cops now. " I looked up and we were passing a construction site and there was a policeman in front of his police car with it's lights flashing. I put my seat belt back on and said to Sean, "That was close." He says I know cause Kevin (Kevin J., Lynn's brother, is 6) got arrested last week for not having his seat belt on. I said, "No kidding!" He says "Yeah!" I said, "That's a shame, is he still in jail? He says, no Mark (Mark J. is 11) got him out because Mark's a cop now you know." I said I didn't know that. He says, well he was a cop but not anymore I don't think.

He kept us quite entertained with his stories in the car. After each one he would say wait Mom Mom, just one more story. The amazing thing to me though is watching his face while he is telling the stories, you can almost see his brain going a hundred miles an hour trying to think of what to add to the story and he gets so animated, it's hysterical.