School Vacation Week

Last week Vince was out of school... time for some fun!  We had big plans on Monday when Mike was home as well, but pretty much the entire household quickly deteriorated that morning and we were all laying around sick the whole day.  So much for day 1.  On to the rest of the week, much improved with fun activities involving building sand castles, destroying sand castles, and terrifying Zoë at the zoo.  Yes, she was freaked out at literally every animal we saw, except the ducks. Oh, and the fish, she liked the fish.  

Wednesday was promising to be warm and sunny, and Vince had been asking to build sand castles all morning.  So we gathered our sand toys, grabbed our ever valuable neighbor/friend, (and practically 4th child) Mary, and headed for Nantasket Beach.  We immediately found an existing sand castle fortress so we parked ourselves next to it and had fun building our own. 

 Busy at the Beach

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Our Zoo day ended up fun, despite Zoë being afraid of every animal.  Oh yeah, and then there was trying to explain to Vince why the gorrilla was putting poop in his mouth and smearing it on the window!  I know, try getting that picture out of your head now, sorry.  Vince got to learn the ways of the democratic system as the zoo held a voting day for kids to vote for what animal they want to be the President of the Zoo!  Vince voted for Christopher the Lion-naturally.   

I kept testing Zoë's fear of animals, that was mean.  Here she is getting appropriately scared of the ferocious looking Mandrill that was only inches away from her (thankful for the glass enclosure!)

 hanging out under the ostrich... totally normal spot, right? 

 exploring the old truck

cute baby gorilla!

checking out the anteater