Not a total waste

Not long after I posted this morning the rain started to slow down. At about 11:30 I called a friend from work to ask if the zoo was still on. The biggest concern I had was that our office planned for months and spent a lot of time and money on organizing this event and if no one showed it would have been a total waste. My friend said she wasn't sure what was happening but she was going to make sure there were no issues since she was one of the planners. I hemmed and hawed and finally asked my hubby (who was trying to take a nap) if we should try to go since the rain was now just a slight drizzle. We decided to go and if it started to get too bad we could always leave. We live only about 10 minutes from the zoo so it wasn't like we had to go far.

We packed up the girls and got to the zoo about 12:15. By the time we made it to the picnic area we were pretty soaked. I was surprised to see a majority of our group had shown up. We were the last ones to show. After standing in line for who knows how long to get our food, there was no place to sit under the covered seating area so we settled on a picnic table that was soaked. I figured since we were already wet it wouldn't hurt to get a little wetter. By the time we finished eating we had about a half hour to kill before we had to go to our group seating at the sea lion show. We slowly wandered our way to the show and took in a few other animals. We saw the sea lion show with front row seating and then headed out to see more animals. We decided to let our visiting niece pick what to see since she hadn't been to the zoo in a long time and we were just here a few months ago. We headed to her main choice, the Expedition Dinosaur. She loved it but the 2 younger ones were a little frightened. When we were done there we headed for the train ride to finish off our day. We didn't do a whole lot but we were still there from 2:15-4:15. The kids had a blast and we mostly enjoyed our time there.