AnImal Day

The weather over the last 24 hours has been crazy. Last night I awoke to one of the loudest thunderstorms that I have heard in a while. Around 2:30 AM or so a powerful storm passed though Apple Valley leaving about 2&1/2 inches of rain behind. Amazingly the girls slept right though it! We were kind of expecting the weather on Sunday to be a total washout but lucky for us, it was just cloudy. Our church celebrated the last Sunday of Sunday School by having a petting zoo for the kids. The zoo was set up on the church lawn and there were many different miniature animals there, including a donkey, a pony, a turkey, lots of chickens and goats, bunnies, dogs, llamas and some sheep. Katie and Allie pet most of the animals and thought it was pretty cool to be walking around in an animal pen with animals all around them. After church we went to the Minnesota Zoo where we wandered around looking at the grizzly bears, otters, monkeys and fish. We spent a lot of time at the park in the zoo where Katie and Allie climbed up a big 10 foot rope ladder and spun around in a swing that looked a lot like a bee hive. I was pretty happy that we were able to spend some time outside on what was supposed to be a rainy day!