Zoo Day!

Started the day with sleeping in and a nice Skype visit with my brother, Craig, and his family. After breakfast we decided to head to the zoo for a bit. Mom was still not feeling 100% so she kept Lucas since it was his nap time anyway. We didn't get to the zoo last time and Maiya really wanted to go. We ended up arranging to meet our friends there and toured around for a couple hours.

Brett managed to find himself a new friend. A nice young girl handed me her camera when we stopped to see the giraffes. I thought she just wanted a shot of herself by the giraffes, but as I looked through the viewfinder, I was a little surprised to see her drape herself around Brett as she gave the peace sign and said "cheese "! It didn't end there as she told me to wait as she pulled a pair of large red sunglasses from her bag, put them on, re-draped herself around Brett and said "cheese " again. She then followed us for a few minutes longer. It is not really clear as to whether she really thought Brett was hot and wanted his photo, or if she was trying to pick his pocket, or if she thought she had simply found a rare and unusual albino creature roaming free in the zoo, but I guess we will never know for sure.

It was definitely interesting seeing the animal enclosures. Not too sure they would really hold if any of the animals really wanted out! Since my Uncle Eldon just retired from the Toronto Zoo, it would be interesting to have had him along with us! With the controversy over the elephants and their enclosure in Toronto, I can't imagine what people would say about this enclosure!

We headed to the food court at the Diamond Plaza with our friends for lunch and to cool off from the sauna-like weather! We ended up going to Pizza Hut again since Maiya was having a tough time with some of the food court smells. Our hotel has popcorn and ice cream (and fruit and cold tea) by the pool from 2-4 on weekends so our friends came back to our hotel for the afternoon which was fun. Mom was feeling better so she joined us for a swim too.

Lucas had a good day today. He was able to feed himself an Arrowroot cookie which was a big step and he loves to sit on the floor by grandma while she folds laundry and does dishes (I'm sure the room cleaners must love us - can't keep mom from doing her usual busy work!). He was definitely a daddy's boy today - he likes to imitate daddy blowing raspberries. He is still a bit afraid of the little walker we got him but he loved watching our friend's little guy running around with it.

No pics of Lucas today, just some from the zoo. None of Brett's little ladyfriend, but he was definitely drawing attention with some of his other poses. The John Deere "zoomobile" pic is for my dad. The creepy eyelids holding up 2 weighted buckets attached to chains was part of a show at the zoo and was very freaky. Almost as weird as the albino and the sunglasses lady.

And so ends another day of adventure in Vietnam!

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