Great as always

The zoo was fantastic! It was a nice day for the zoo, too. It was warm in the sun (90ish) and comfortable in the shade. We saw lots of animals, nothing new though.

After the zoo we ate at Olive Garden, it was good. I had chicken Alfredo. Oh, and of course their salad and bread sticks...yum, yum!!!

The winning activity we did was Mud Island. It began as a sandbar in 1900 and by 1913 is was a permanent land mass. The best part was the half mile miniature Mississippi river that started at the headwaters and ended at the Gulf of Mexico. It also had the Missouri and the Ohio rivers flowing into it. This was one of the best history/geography teaching models I have ever seen. You could even walk in it. When you reached New Orleans you could walk in Lake Ponchartrain, which oddly enough had a fountain in it (I have been there and I don't remember a fountain but, it was nice). To get to the island you can either walk the bridge or ride the monorail. We walked, it was free. There is also a museum but, you have to buy a ticket, we didn't see the museum. We just walked Old Man River and did a little bird watching. We are going back Labor Day weekend with my parents.

On another note, we gave Hugo his second round of antibiotics. We started working on it at 9:15 pm we finished at 10:15 pm! It was a little difficult. He HATED it! We had to reload the syringe 3 times. After we gave him the meds we had to clean the abscess wound with hydrogen peroxide and he hated that too. I'm guessing we aren't very high on his list of favorite people right now...

Well I have been up since 6:30 am, I am going to SLEEP...