Spring Break . . . ready, set, go!

Well, Spring Break at the Stoll house is well underway. The kid's had Friday off for a teacher workshop and all this week is Spring Break. Kirbs took the week off, too, and we're planning to have a great, relaxing week together (with some time in there with friends too)! I think (hopefully) that all the sickness is behind us now . . . nearly 24-hours fever free as I write this. And no one has puked in, oh, 28 hours or so. The antibiotics are all completed and the weather is nice, so I'm shootin' for good health!

The highlight of Friday was the ice cream cones we had in the middle of the day and the fort that the kids built out of every conceivable blanket, pillow and chair they could get their little hands on . . . so, don't come over right about now, there's no place to sit! It is quite the structure and, turns out it's a great place to read a book!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Today was a glorious 68 degrees with sunshine and a [warm, believe it or not] little breeze! We spent the day at the Minnesota Zoo. I was hopin' to be there the day the new little dolphin they are expecting there was born . . . dolphins are pregnant, basically, forever [ok, 12 months, but if you've ever been pregnant that would seem like FOREVER!] and the estimated due date was late February or early March. Poor Allie, she must be miserable right about now. Luckily, though, she lives in the water so that's gotta help, and her mom, April, is hangin' out with her in a seperate pool from all the guy dolphins, so she's probably doing ok! Anyway, no dolphin calf today. Bummer, since I really do love babies . . . although I've never seen a newborn dolphin, I imagine I would be pretty excited about that brand of newborn too!

Anna loved the fish. She could get right up to the glass, she wasn't too short to see and they swam right in front of her. What a view!


Here's Anna going through the "bamboo wall". She loved it!
Don't worry . . . she might look a little stuck, but she wasn't. Just hangin' out!
Trying on the scuba gear. Nice flipper, Jacob!
Joe, I think that suit might be a tad big for you!
Lydia doing a little rock climbing:
The girls were best friends today. They held hands almost all day and were just so cute together . . . if only they were that way all the time!!

We saw fish, HUGE grizly bears, sea otters, a bald eagle, camels, sharks, wild boars, red pandas, bats, flamingos and all manner of other creatures! It was a fun day and a great adventure for our crew. We bumped into a few people that we knew there. They must have also thought it was the absolute perfect day for a trip to the zoo (it would seem that lots of people thought that, since it was pretty busy for a March Monday!)

On tap for tomorrow: green beer more fun and adventure . . . lots more fun to come in the next 6 days of schoollessness!