zrew day

remember when Drew moved?

well before he moved, he wanted to visit the zoo one more time.  Drew loves the Zoo, so he was the most excited person when we scheduled a day to go.  Our nieces have zoo memberships, so we invited them to be our tour guides/experts (oh, and their mom too). 

-they knew that the train was important to do

-they knew which buildings were going to be the smelliest: "um, it's going to smell bad in there, Megan...tell Ruffus"

-they knew that "sometimes the monkeys play, but sometimes they sleep"

thank goodness we had them with us. 

train ride

snack time

they also knew where to find the shady places to sit.

I really liked this guy... standing on his friend to peek his head out of the water.

Matt took me to the zoo on our third date

(and brought me the first flower he ever gave me*)

tangent: *when we were first dating, Matt often brought me a flower or flowers.  This particular date, he had a single carnation sitting on the passenger seat of his car for me when I got in.  I thought this was ADORABLE, and later learned that he got the flower despite his two roommates and friend telling him not to, because they "knew" it was a lame move.  They are so wrong, and I have been having that argument with them since.

so we went to the zoo on our third date, and watched the bird show.  The bird show is equal parts really neat and really cheesy.  Even though the girls are zoo experts, they hadn't ever seen the bird show, so we went again.  I'm glad we did.  It hadn't changed since our third date and I was all reminiscent and twitterpated.  I remembered watching the bird show with him, but really watching him half of the time, and thinking about how much I liked his sunglasses on him. 

after the zoo, Matt and I took Drew to the only acceptable post-zoo lunch spot: Settebello 

(Drew's other favorite thing)