Post-Christmas: Sorting it All Out

The Hobbled Runner is enjoying a few days home with the kids while the Hobbled Wife toils away - making history (inside joke that). It was a successful morning, with the Dude working mightily on his Harry Potter Lego ship - a million pieces at least, but he does a great job reading the instructions - and really got into sorting pieces by color and function (YES!- someone to pass on the retentive gene).

We got out of the house around 11:00 to visit the Como Zoo. This was my idea, I can't stay inside all day, and I wanted to see the new Tropical Encounters exhibit at the Conservatory. Very cool - they have tropical birds and lizards (and one Sloth) just "out in the open", and fish tanks full of pirahanna (sp?), a water anaconda (green, gross, and gigantic). We even ate lunch at the zoo - very nice cafe which I'd only walked past and never entered. It beat the planned lunch at Perkins.

After Como, we stopped into Target to pick up a prescription and some groceries. That's right, Target one day after Christmas - a bit crazy, but on busy days they have all the registers open, so things moved very fast.

Back home for fun, fizzy experiments with the new chemistry set pictured above.