Holidays Again?

Well we just got home from a little trip to Peterborough. Dave had organized a surprise 30th birthday party for Mel on Sunday evening. I mean sure her birthday was over a month ago, but it's the thought that counts. Actually for Mel's birthday they were still on their trip out west, so really she had two really nice birthdays. Dave actually organized a pretty awesome party. The food was great and their friends all very nice. Some of them we had met before and other's not. Mike's big thrill came from meeting a couple of the guys from the band Money Money. They're good friends of Dave and Mel's who just happen to have a really great CD out right now. It's almost never out of our CD player in the van. Even Abby's into them, in fact she rocks out to their music most mornings. Swing by their site and listen to their latest single Bend and Break.

Okay shameless plug for some nice guys out of the way. Since we're on holidays this week we spent the night at Dave and Mel's and spent Funday Monday with Dave. After some breakfast at one of Dave's hang-outs we headed over to the free zoo. I've been there once before and Dave, of course, has been there many many times, but it was Abby and Mike's first visit. Abby was quite excited to see all the animals. She kept running ahead of us to get to the next exhibit. She thought the camels were pretty cool and so did we until it put it's face right close to the fence and starting moving it's mouth around like it was getting a spitball ready. A good time to move on we figured. We all rode the little train for a dollar (thanks Dave). Not necessarily the most exciting train ride I've ever been on, but Abby enjoyed herself. We checked out the giant carp in the river, but none of us had a dime to buy some carp food to feed them. On to the monkey cage. What a riot that was. There was about 6 squirrel monkeys in this cage and they put on quite a show. Let me tell you watching a monkey fall out of a tree never gets old, no matter how many times you see it and we saw it several times. After that we checked out some Wallabys (which look like a kangaroo) and meerkats (like Timon from the Lion King) which Abby screamed at and made them duck back into their tunnels. Mike and Dave looked at the Burmese Python, but Abby started to cry and wouldn't look. She told me today that she couldn't look because snakes were scary. In addition to the animals they have a very nice children's playground and splash pad. Abby went so far as to strip off all her clothes before deciding she didn't want to get wet after all. We let her play at the play ground for a little while before having to forcibly put her back in the van. A play ground at nap time when she was up late the night before wasn't a good mix.

We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and waiting for Mel to get home. We had a nice dinner. Mel made a great salad! Gave Abby a quick bath and loaded up to head for home. As always I hate leaving. Abby is so crazy in love with Aunt Mel and Uncle Dave I wish they were closer. She was still yelling bye and love yous to them as we drove up the street. As predicted Abby was asleep by the time we hit the 115. However, by the time we got on the 407 the bright lights on most of that highway kept waking her up so she cried on and off the rest of the way home.

Dave was raving about the British version of The Office series. They had just rented the DVD's. Tonight we noticed the American version was on with Steve Carrell so we checked it out and laughed our asses off.