Excellent weekend!

Well, for those of you that were wondering, I had a wonderful weekend. The cookout party was awesome (even though the babies were the center of attention!!), and then Paul whisked me away to the Bavarian Inn for the evening, where we had a great dinner and spent the night. The next morning, we slept in a bit longer than we planned...he was going to take me to Kings Dominion, but the weather was not very good to be walking around an amusement park. (high of 65 and 80% chance of precipitation with lightning and thunder too) So, instead, we drove down to Shady Grove, hopped on the metro, and went to the Zoo!! It wasn't picture perfect though...we had to get off the metro 2 stops before ours because a person got hit by one of the cars, then get a shuttle to the stop we were to go to. Then, when we were walking out of the Ape House, we found out that it started to rain quite hard. Needless to say, we got pretty wet. On our way out, we got on the wrong bus (it wasn't a shuttle bus), so we had to pay to have him take us to the best metro station (we needed to get out of the rain anyway). But really, all in all, it was a great day! We saw the baby panda, the giant pandas, lots of monkeys, the giraffe, the elephant and her baby (which is 4 years old and a whopping 3600 lbs!!), pygmie hippos, lots of reptiles, and more. It will be so much fun when Noah gets to be old enough to walk around the zoo with us - he'll have such a good time looking at all of the different animals!!