We spent our day at the Oregon Zoo today with our friends Christina, Peter and Miriam. We had a wonderful time and returned home this evening happily exhausted. This is our second year of meeting them at the zoo for Labor Day and last year we were only hoping for a baby. This year, we have a 5-month-old Sophia to share it with!This year was definitely better.
To the right is a photo we took last year thinking it would be a
good funny picture to put in our adoption photo book. We did include it. This year we re-took that picture with Sophia. That felt good.
We parked across Washington Park from the Zoo near the rose garden and took the train in which was lots of fun for all except for Sophia who got a little scared and overwhelmed towards the end. The rest of us thought it was fun way to start the day and really loved not having to fight for parking near the zoo. The only bad
part was the steep stairway we all had to climb to get to the train platform. There is no other access, and no handicap access.
We roamed around the zoo all day, having a great time observing
the animals. Sophia was quite content alternating between her stroller and snugli all day. She took a few naps. She seemed to observe some animals and find them fascinating. Most exciting to her were the giraffes or as we like to call them "big Geronimos" (Geronimo is the name of her stuffed giraffe shown here.)
We ate lunch during their bird show and enjoyed watching the birds perform by flying over our heads. Some of them fly just inches above the crowd so I'm glad we weren't sitting in those areas!
After we separated, Paul, Sophia and I had dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory, which growing up was always one of my favorite restaurants in Portland. We can honestly say that Sophia had her first meal there, although she did not eat their food.We're all quite tired after this long day, but we had a fun day with good friends, and what better can you ask for from a Labor Day?
