A Fun and Beautiful Weekend

Happy Memorial Day! It just so happens that the UK Bank Holiday fell on the US Memorial Day Holiday, so Cody was off work today. We have had a wonderful weekend full of much sunshine and absolutely perfect weather. Here are some pictures we took after church yesterday right in our front yard and driveway garden.


And then today, we drove down to Edinburgh (apparently with the rest of Scotland!) to the zoo. This was Jackson's first time to the zoo. Other than a splat on the asphalt (no permanent damage done...and amazingly, no scrapes!), he seemed to enjoy every minute of it. Cody and I discovered that the zoo really is more fun when you have kids. Some things we learned from Jackson at the zoo today:
-Half of the animals in the zoo say "meow" (did you know that??) It was incredibly funny while looking at one of those huge ugly warthogs, that he said, "meow" quite audibly...everyone around laughed.
-Penguins look like airplanes when they are swimming in the water...oh, and birds. But, apparently, according to Jackson, they say, "woof woof" like a dog.
-Jackson fits right in with the monkeys...he was constantly saying, "oooaaa" with a nice open mouth on the "aaa"...it was too cute!!
-After watching the chimpanzees (yes, chimpanzees in a zoo) slide down the rope and saying "wee" to Jackson...it appears that chimpanzees now say, "wee".
We had a blast and couldn't believe that we spent about 4 1/2 hours at the zoo!! We thought there was no way we could ever do that! It was a fun time had by all.



Last but not least...this was a picture of one of the outside of the restaurants at the zoo...yes, at the zoo!! Only in Scotland. It, however, was closed today. And, later in the day we found out why as we heard and saw bagpipes being played and then a lovely bride stepping out of a car. My comment (which, in retrospect was probably very judgemental and slightly rude) to Cody was, "I do not think I'd want to get married at the zoo." However, it did look like a beautiful building!

Having this beautiful weather this weekend and then being at the zoo and seeing all of the marvelous, intricately and uniquely created animals and plants made me think of how truly amazing God is. So, I flipped open to Genesis and read some verses. I have posted one under the God's Word column to the top right to share with you. How awesome is our God!!