The Zoo
So every week I go to a "Mom and Me" group that our ward has. This week happened to be "Two-Buck-Tuesday at the Zoo. I got a ride with my friend Melissa and another one of our friends Amy caravaned behined us. When we got close to the Zoo there were signs telling us that the parking lot was full and that there was another parking lot with a shuttle. So Melissa and I talked and we were like, "well we came this far we might as well still go." So after another couple mile drive we arrived at a distant parking lot. At this point we got each of our two kids, our double strollers, our diaper bags, camara bags, and our packed lunches all together and we continued to walk a short but steep distance to stand in a line for a shuttle. Now this really was not a shuttle it was a regular old yellow school bus. Amy, Melissa and I are like, "how on earth are we going to get our stuff on that," but we watched as strollers were loaded into the back of the bus with help from the drivers. So we thought we can do this. That bus filled up so we ended up waiting 30 minute or so for another bus to come. With some struggles but some nice help from the driver and strangers we all made it! But do not think this is were all the frustrations end there is more. It all went wrong on the way back. We found the spot where the buses were picking people up to take them back to the distant parking lot. We struggled as all three of us unloaded our two kids, three bags, folded up our strollers (with our youngest child and bags in our arms) and drug our strollers up to the door of the bus. Nobody I mean absoulutely NOBODY would help. Not the cranky bus driver lady, not the twenty people behind us in line waiting. Poor sweet Melissa heaved our heavy strollers onto the bus asking as nicely as she could for the people in the first couple of rows to move back so that she did not have to carry the stroller any further. All the while they just stared at her and would not MOVE! So with each stroller she put on she would ask again to move and they would just stare at her. The the bus driver had the audacity to say to her, "How many times are you going to make these people move?" I could not believe it when she told me what had happened later. So we finally got loaded then continued to watch others as they heaved their strollers onto the bus past the people who would not move. Once everybody was on and we got back to the distant parking lot we waited for everybody to get off then poor Melissa again hauled our strollers off while we watched her kids (I am not sure why she did it but we were very thankful for her help). It was such a long tireing day of hauling stollers, bags and kids around I had a huge headache afterwards. We all decided that we're definitely never ever going on "Two-Buck-Tuesday" again!
So every week I go to a "Mom and Me" group that our ward has. This week happened to be "Two-Buck-Tuesday at the Zoo. I got a ride with my friend Melissa and another one of our friends Amy caravaned behined us. When we got close to the Zoo there were signs telling us that the parking lot was full and that there was another parking lot with a shuttle. So Melissa and I talked and we were like, "well we came this far we might as well still go." So after another couple mile drive we arrived at a distant parking lot. At this point we got each of our two kids, our double strollers, our diaper bags, camara bags, and our packed lunches all together and we continued to walk a short but steep distance to stand in a line for a shuttle. Now this really was not a shuttle it was a regular old yellow school bus. Amy, Melissa and I are like, "how on earth are we going to get our stuff on that," but we watched as strollers were loaded into the back of the bus with help from the drivers. So we thought we can do this. That bus filled up so we ended up waiting 30 minute or so for another bus to come. With some struggles but some nice help from the driver and strangers we all made it! But do not think this is were all the frustrations end there is more. It all went wrong on the way back. We found the spot where the buses were picking people up to take them back to the distant parking lot. We struggled as all three of us unloaded our two kids, three bags, folded up our strollers (with our youngest child and bags in our arms) and drug our strollers up to the door of the bus. Nobody I mean absoulutely NOBODY would help. Not the cranky bus driver lady, not the twenty people behind us in line waiting. Poor sweet Melissa heaved our heavy strollers onto the bus asking as nicely as she could for the people in the first couple of rows to move back so that she did not have to carry the stroller any further. All the while they just stared at her and would not MOVE! So with each stroller she put on she would ask again to move and they would just stare at her. The the bus driver had the audacity to say to her, "How many times are you going to make these people move?" I could not believe it when she told me what had happened later. So we finally got loaded then continued to watch others as they heaved their strollers onto the bus past the people who would not move. Once everybody was on and we got back to the distant parking lot we waited for everybody to get off then poor Melissa again hauled our strollers off while we watched her kids (I am not sure why she did it but we were very thankful for her help). It was such a long tireing day of hauling stollers, bags and kids around I had a huge headache afterwards. We all decided that we're definitely never ever going on "Two-Buck-Tuesday" again!
Well, here are some cute pictures of the kids from that day.
These were in the line for the first shuttle.
Definently the first bus ride. Happy, not frazzled and tired yet. That is Melissa holding Branson in the next row back from me.
Joshua napping
Gwen and Ethan
From Left: Gwen, Ethan, Liza and Jessica
From left: Me, Ethan, Jessica, Liza, Amy holding Gwen, and Lindsey holding Olivia (in her belly)
Ethan and his new girl friend Gwen
Gwen and Ethan again
Yep, Ethan has his finger in his nose again! I have tried and tried again to tell him to keep it out and right back it goes not even a second later.
2 comments:
Sounds like it was an adventure for you. Kids looked like they had fun. Jimmy would have just been excited to be able to ride the bus. :)
Yea it was a lot of fun for Ethan he would not stop talking about the bus ride. I sang wheels on the bus for days and days.
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