You would be tired too

After a hard day playing at the zoo sleeping sitting up in the car is no problem.

A trip to the Zoo

No Zoo trip would be complete without atleast one visit to the snack bar. Today Conner got to have a snow cone. I will not debate the merits of having a snow cone on a day where it is barely into the 40s but that was the treat he wanted. He also got that awesome polar bear bottle. It seems to have been cut off a bit and is turned the wrong way but that white thing with a yellow top is the bottle. It had pink lemonade in it and it is reusable. We are always happy to find a cool new reusable bottle so that he has something to take drinks into his room with.

We got to the Zoo a bit late and only had 2 hours to spend there. With some warm coats we were able to enjoy the trip. We did have to cut our time in the aquarium short because it closes 15 minutes before the rest of the park. I could spend hours watching their 2 story saltwater tank with the sharks and large fish in it.

Princess a year later

This is a picture of Princess a year later. While not the prettiest of jasmin plants is growing alot. You may have trouble seeing the new growth but there are a half dozen new bits growing out and there is a whole new trunk growing up from the roots. That is that little one comming out of the dirt to the right of the main plant. it only has 6 little leaves at this point but is comming along.

Orange Plant

Back sometime in December or January (whenever clementines came into season) I had one in the office and it had a single seed in it. I decided to plant that seed in the same pot as Princess not really expecting it to grow but more on the idea that it would be really awesome to have an orange tree in my office so that when I got hungry I could just pick one off and eat it. This was an off the wall idea and I never expected it to take off but a couple weeks ago I found a new sprig growing in Princess's pot and thought at first that it was another shoot from her but after the leaves opened I wasn't sure what it was. So in the process of replanting Princess to a larger pot I dug around this new little sprig a bit and found my orange seed with a root out the bottom and the leafy bits out the top. I replanted it and it now has its' own pot. I read a bit about orange trees and it takes many years to ever grow and I would most likely need another tree to provide for polination but it is still pretty awesome and I hope that it will grow to be huge.

Easter Egg hunts in the cold

Conner and I went to Towanda for Easter weekend to visit family. Tasha had to work Saturday so she didn't get to go with us. Saturday morning they had an easter egg hunt in the park so Conner got to find even more eggs. He ended up with 20 of them and would have had more but while he was running through a muddy spot he lost a shoe and was hopping on one foot until I could help him put it back on.

Motorcycles are cool

Due to a car problem Josh had to pick up his bike a little before bike weather really sets in but Conner did get the chance to sit on it while it was running and even got to wear the helmet. Watch out Grandpa he will be after you for bike rides at the beach... Well maybe in a few years when it wouldn't freak his mom out so much.

Pittsburgh from LeMont

I had a lunch meeting on Thursday and it was at LeMont a restaurant on Mount Washington overlooking the point. It was difficult at times to keep focused on the presenters as this was pretty much the view that I had looking straight from my seat. I had to turn a bit to see the projector so I caught myself looking out at the city more often than I probably should have.

The food was wonderful. I would have taken a picture of the swordfish because the cut was larger than an entire Big Mac and this was all meat but I would have felt a bit silly explaining to the other people at my table that I was photo-blogging the meal. Not that the techy people would not have known what I was saying but more because they would have really known and I didn't want to be 'that guy'.