Adventures in Abilene

This past weekend we ventured out west to Abilene to see our brother and sister-in-law. We all had a blast! The girls were ecstatic to see them both, and they each had at least one child attached at the hip nearly the whole time. Lon and Christy are both so good with the girls; it was fun for Lee and I to watch, and the help was very much appreciated!




We hung out at their house some, ran some errands, ate yummy Chinese food (we are so deprived of this genre in Graham), and had a fierce Wii bowling battle after the girls were in bed, but the biggest adventure was to the Abilene Zoo. Totally and somewhat unexpectedly, they have a very cute smaller-style zoo. One of the most fun things there was that you could buy food to feed nearly ALL the animals (instead of just the hippos or something). They also had a very cool bridge that routed you up over the giraffe enclosure so not only were you feeding them, you were feeding them at eye level. Lily was not at all sure about this process, but the rest of us were enthralled.






Grace enjoys the lovely aroma of rhino.

















And the absolute winner from the zoo, our family portrait. Doesn't it look like the giraffe is trying to join in?