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| Claire pulling Alice in the wagon |
Since Marc is so busy with school and church responsibilities we don't get to see him as much as we like to. To remedy this we decided to get away for a few days during spring break. We didn't go far, just up to Memphis since I already had an appointment scheduled with my midwife and we had to drive up anyway. After my appointment on Thursday we went and got some BBQ at the BBQ Shop, which was pretty good. (A side note here: I HATE BBQ sauce so we have to find somewhere that has good dry ribs if we hit this type of joint. The BBQ Shop was pretty good in that regard.) After lunch we went to the zoo, which is convinently down the street from my midwife.
The girls have always love the zoo. The biggest problem we run into with the Memphis Zoo is the size.
I try to get my kids to walk everywhere but it is so big they just can't hack it. So this time we brought the wagon and I am so glad we did. The girls could ride when they needed to, but the novelty of the wagon was so great that they wanted to pull each other in it most of the day. Unfortunatly Marc was finishing up a project and spent most of the day at the picnic area with his computer, but the weather was terrific and we all had a great time.
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| Alice and the Komodo Dragon |
Today we decided to try the Children't Museum of Memphis. I have heard excellent things about it so we gave it a go. It was fabulous! There are so
many exhibits and fun things to do. They girls had a ball and only we willing to leave because they were starving and I didn't bring lunch. (No outside food or drink allowed of course). But we had such a good time that we got a membership. We are really looking forward to the summer when the splash pad is open. The girls begged and pleaded to go back so we relented and ended up going for a few hours this morning before we left Memphis.
To end our weekend we swung back into Oxford just in time to catch the free double decker bus tour. It was interesting and informative and it gave me a few ideas of where to take people when they visited. We ran into some friends, actually one of the girls favorite friends and her mom on the tour. We went with them and got frozen yogurt afterwords. All of us are totally exhausted from our fun weekend and can hopefully get some rest tomorrow before Marc gets back to the grind.
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| On top of the bus |
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| On the square to get frozen yogurt |
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| Claire and Alice with their favorite friend Gabriella |
