February 1, 2003

• Good morning   There's a bit of blue sky outside, and it looks like life is good.   

  
  

  But then you turn on the news, and you hear about the shuttle.  And you wonder which you should focus on.  I decided to pray for the shuttle family survivors, and move on. 

  
  

  But then I surfed about Rainee's heart stuff, and depressed myself again.     I'm learning that the why's to medical stuff, are so often unanswerable.  THAT SUCKS!   I want to fix things, to make sure it won't happen to anybody else, bla bla bla.  But that's not reality is it?   So I lay it in the hands of my loving Father, and move on.  Slowly, one step at a time.

  
  

  And then I have these delicious pictures to show you.  And their cute, and good.  And I think should I be focusing on good, when there's so much bad.  BUT YES, because bad and evil will win, if we can't have joy.  Sooooooooooooo   here we go.  (I hope )

  
  

  Do you find when your truely enjoying yourself you don't take that many pictures?  Cause your too busy enjoying.  I did take pictures, but when I looked through them, most of them didn't capture the day.  Or the joys of things like Mari Man staring at the recycled pop cans and wondering if he could play with them instead of looking at all the cool animals.  *grin*   Or Kaylin examining the drain in detail, and wondering what was under there.     

  
  

  Or the fact that Rainee can smile or wave, and breathed so good the day we went.     Or the lovely sunset that DH and I stood outside of the van and watched while we were riding on the ferry.  Or the fact that my kids were so well behaved, polite, respectful, and had so much fun.  it was a perfect day.   I've had a lot of those lately.....or maybe I'm just more aware of the days when everything goes right because there's been so many that have been so hard. 

  
  

  This monkey in this picture (which you can't see too well)  Was just fascinated with the kids.  He came right up to the glass and he had been quite aways away from it, and played, and tried to "touch" the kids through the glass.  We watched him forever.  The zoo was quite empty, so we had most of the exhibits to ourself, and the animals were extremely friendly.   We MUST go back in January again some day. 

  
  

      

  
  

  Mari Man (Jame's nickname)  favorite thing was the baby elephants.  The baby elephant would pick up dirty hay and throw it on his back.  He thought it was quite funny.  Little boys definitely love getting dirty.  Of course we were so busy enjoying watching, I didn't take a picture.  But I have the MEMORY, and that's more important. 

  
  

  We watched these guys for a long time.  And the daddy lion ROARED and ROARED and ROARED for us.  It was way cool. 

  
  

      

  
  

  And here we have HD talking to the monkey.  He was so cute.  (the monkey and the boy )

      

  
  

  And this was  HD's FAVORITEST animal.  He loves dragons and dinosaurs, and this is as close as your gonna get.    Its a Komodo Dragon, and way cool! 

  
  

      

  
  

  and then the lovely sunset DH and I watched outside the van, with the kids safely buckled in their carseats.  It was a good way to end the day. 

  
  

    

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