Labor Day Weekend Fun

Since we had a long weekend over Labor Day, we decided to head up to Lake Murray to visit Nana and Pops and also hit up the zoo while we were there.  The last time we took Gemma to the zoo was around Christmas, and she wasn't terribly aware of what was going on.  She's really into animals these days, so we thought she would love it.

Gemma did really enjoy seeing animals at the zoo, and she even got to feed a giraffe (which is one of her favorite animals), although after it wrapped its entire tongue around her little arm, she got freaked out and didn't want to feed it anymore. 

We had fun hanging out with Nana, Pops, Uncle Mike and Aunt Jean, and Aunt Pam.  One night, Pops took us out on the boat to see if any of the purple martins were still hanging around.  Most of them have migrated by now, but we did get to see a beautiful sunset.

If you squint really hard, you may be able to see a few purple martins

Although the trip there went smoothly, the car ride back was not so great.  We had two kids crying for about the last 30 minutes.  After that I am really not looking forward to making a long trip to see my family at Thanksgiving but I guess we'll make do!

We really enjoyed the long weekend but it made it even harder when Cy had to go back to work on Tuesday!