Change of Plans

The girls have been looking forward to this weekend for months now, as my brother Mike & his family were supposed to come for a sleepover.  Unfortunately, they had too many sick ones to make the trip from MN.  Bummer!!!  Thankfully, we were able to put it back on the calendar a couple weeks from now, and will be prayerful that everyone will be happy and healthy by then.  In an effort to help the girls get over their disappointment of missing their cousins, we packed up and headed for a surprise winter visit to Como Zoo.  We've always gone on a hot sticky summer day, but were very pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was to go on a warm (only people from the Midwest would call 28 degrees warm!) February day.  The crowds were little to none, and the girls were able to get really close to the animals indoors. 

Hadley fell in love with this little orangutan, who was determined to make her laugh with his silly antics. 

Whereas Piper preferred to cuddle the pretend seal sculpture rather than be scared by the crazy orangutan (she cried when he reached out his arms to her through the glass!).

Watching the Tiger pace a trail in the snow down below.

Time to warm up in the uber-humid but beautiful conservatory.  By this time the girls were just itching to be out of their coats and stroller...

And consequently got a little bit silly!

While we truly missed Mikey & family, it turned out to be a really special 'family day' for us.