People watching at the zoo

Today I took Chelsea to the zoo. It was St. Patrick's day, beautiful weather for March (like 82 degrees at noon) and Spring Break. We were there with 14,000 other people! (a rather disgruntled parking attendant gave me the number) It turned out to be quite fun as Chelsea would prefer to stare at people over animals anyway. So we walked around the zoo and literally saw 2 animals, the rhino and tiger, and then played on the playground.

I managed to snap a few cute pics. of Chelsea climbing the steps to the slide, but never got one of her actually ON the slide b/c my hands were required for that part. So just image the finale of her gleefully whizzing down.

This video is great. Chelsea barely misses being plowed over and she's oblivious.

We miss Hayli

My sister Hayli left for South Korea on Wednesday. She's going to be there a year teaching English in a private Elementary school. I am sooooooo sad. She was in town about 6 weeks getting all her paper work ready to leave and I was so grateful for her company. Hayli has a very generous heart and was great about helping me talk through missing New Zealand. She also has a tight relationship with Chelsea, who squealed with glee everytime Hayli showed up to play. So Chelsea and I are mourning her leaving. I guess I should mention that I am really happy for Hayli getting to go on this new adventure, just throwing a pity party for myself.

Here's a video of them playing with a ball Hayli gave Chelsea for her birthday. It has provided all of us with hours of entertainment.