Monday the gang piled into the van and headed over to the Dream Cafe for breakfast. It was our first breakfast out, sort of, but I didn't take any pictures. It was quite good, though. I've been pleased with how many places we've been able to comfortably eat outside.
Afterward we headed to the Dallas Zoo. Not known for being as good as the Fort Worth Zoo, but their new Giants of the Savannah exhibit (which basically doubles the size of the zoo) helps quite a bit.
Zoos are familiar ground, so the boys headed right off to see the sights.
Logan and Jill found the Jungle of the Chimps, and Logan spent some time perfecting his chimp facial expressions. That's actually exactly what he looks like when he's anxious.
Zoos are tough places to take nice pictures of birds, because they're almost always behind cages or wires or mesh or something. We got a chance to get right in with them, which was a good photo opportunity.
OK, I admit we spent quite a bit of time just imitating the animals.
I also got tired of holding Meyer, so I sent him up to the shoulders for the first time to see how he would do. He loved it, but spent WAY too much time banging on the top of my head. Seriously, I had a headache after barely 5 minutes.
After the zoo, we had dinner at the Twisted Root Burger Co., which was great. It was nice to hit a loud, unsophisticated dive with the kids for dinner where we didn't have to really worry about them being loud. Patrons are assigned characters to be called when their orders are ready, and ours was (fittingly) Ringo Starr. Logan thought that was awesome. The burgers were great, and they had a pretty delicious watermelon sweet tea. Frankly, I think the eating is probably my favorite part of vacationing with kids.
Later - how Tuesday became the gravity well for all of our bad karma on the trip.
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Nice animal impressions guys--and, since Meyer loves the air conditioner so much, you must also show him the never-ending box of kleenex--two of Savannah's favorites at that age. Miss you!
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