we went to the zoo

To celebrate Brian's birthday (yep, it's in May...yes, we are the world's greatest procrastinators), we went to the zoo on Saturday. The Sedgwick County Zoo, which is the 13th largest zoo in the country. We hadn't been there since with the Math Club my soph or jr year of college and a lot has changed since then. I was really excited to see all the new exhibits (new gorilla habitat, new chimp/orangutan habitat, new penguin exhibit), and I was not disappointed. First we watched an elephant demonstration that was quite impressive. I would love to have a few elephants. I love that they are a social species and so incredibly smart. Then, we wasted a bunch of time at the river otter demonstration because apparently they just canceled it and didn't bother to inform their waiting fans, and then we saw penguin feeding. The little Humboldt penguins are so cute and mighty fast under water. In between those demonstrations we saw the exhibits mentioned above, the reptiles/amphibians, the jungle, and the South America and Australia exhibits. I was tuckered out after our four-and-one-half hours there.

Also this weekend, we buckled down and spent all of Friday evening writing our wedding thank-yous. Like I said, world's greatest procrastinators. Put us together and trouble. So those of you thinking we are not grateful for your gifts, you just wait. We are! We always have been! We're just bad.

Yesterday, Brian's parents had us and my parents over for an anniversary celebration. They outdid themselves on a very nice meal, including homemade frozen custard, and we broke out the wedding cake they preserved for us. It's actually pretty tasty. We walked out to the pond, and I put Brian through some "one year later" pictures on the bridge, amongst the sunflowers, and under the willow where we were married. We wrapped up the evening by watching our wedding dvd (with much fast forwarding through the sermon...).