Our ride over there started out with a first for Aunt Stace and ended with a first for Aunt Stace. And both involved Gavin and having to go pee! LOL!! We had just got on the interstate at the Dale exit and were tooling down the road. All of a sudden Gavin tells me he has to pee. There aren't many exits between Dale and Louisville so I whip the car to the side of the road, go around to the passenger side, unbuckle Gavin, pull him out of the car and let him do his thing. Of course the section of the road we are on has a slant to it, so as he's peeing, it's running back down the road towards us, so I'm trying to hold his pants off the ground, move him so he's not stepping in pee all the while he's still peeing. And Uncle Shawn is sitting in the car saying, what are you doing, what are you doing! LOL!!
After that situation, it was smooth sailing to the zoo. The weather was perfect for the zoo. It was overcast and cool. I wore my jacket the entire day. And the zoo wasn't very crowded at all. We saw all the animals we wanted except for the elephants and they were already put up by the time we got to them. We got to see the giraffe too, but he was in his cage :( Note to self: take the path to the left ... you'll see the big animals first!
We only had two little melt downs that day. One when he wanted a toy. We told him we would get the toy, but not at that specific gift shop, we wanted to wait until we got to the one right before we were leaving the zoo. So we had a few tears over that. And then a little bit later when he was thirsty and wanted a drink and we didn't have anything. So Uncle Shawn trekked back to a snack stand to get us a soda. After that, the world was good! I think he was tired and wore out more than anything :(
I don't know why, but I love this little picture of him getting a drink. I think it's the backpack that makes me like it. He's getting to be such a little man now. He wore that backpack almost the entire day. He wanted too. I even had it loaded down with stuff, but he still wanted to wear it.
While we ate lunch and sat for a while, Gavin enjoyed playing on one of the playgrounds at the zoo. They have a splash park there too that I thought we would partake in, but it was chilly for the day and they didn't have it running.
This is where one of the melt downs took place.
All was better once we had a soda to drink!
The tigers were one of my favorite exhibits at the zoo. That big white barrel was his chew toy. He had been chewing on it, then pushed it into the water and then a second later, he used his teeth to pull the barrel out of the water back onto the land to continue chewing on it. That barrel was almost submerged with water too!
I love these next three pictures. He was laying in the grass all calm and I held my camera up to take his picture and he gave me the stare down and raised some. Almost like he was going to lunge towards me.
As you can see below, he got the toys he wanted. I told him we would get them for him. He also got a smashed penny from the zoo. I don't even think we were out of the parking lot of the zoo and he was out. He was this way for the next almost two hours while we drove to the mall and waited for a table at the Cheesecake Factory. Shawn went into the malls and did his shopping while I sat in the car with Gavin while he slept.
My delicious piece of cheesecake that I had for breakfast the next day!
And of course the peeing situation on the way home. We left Louisville around 9:30 Louisville time. Gavin and I both went to the bathroom before we left the restaurant because I knew it was a two-hour drive home. We hadn't been in the car that long at all when I hear "I have to go pee Stace". What?? Are you kidding me! We just went pee. We are on a five-lane interstate with no shoulder to pull over on, and no exits with visible bathrooms for miles. I told him to hold it as long as he could and we'd find a bathroom, and thought well if he has an accident, I'll just have to change his clothes and we'll move on. As I'm pulling into the gas station, I hear "I already peed in my pants Stace". I told him it was ok and we went into the bathroom to change. :( Note to self: don't let him have that much to drink before having to make a road trip and even when you think you are finished peeing in the bathroom, let's hang out just a few minutes longer and try again.
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