Sunday, August 23, 2009

A "Craptastic" Day at the Aviary

My sister-in-law described her day as "craptastic", sometimes that's how I feel too. So I thought I'd plaguerize her saying to describe our trip to the Tracy Aviary (at least part of it).
I seriously don't understand how it can take 20 minutes (or more) to leave the house when everything was ready an hour prior to departure. The diaper bag packed, lunch bag ready. We were just waiting for Jace to wake up from his morning nap so we could leave. Yet it still took much longer than expected to leave.

Not that we were in a hurry, it just took forever.

On the way down we were in the commuter lane, cruise control set at 71 mph, a good distance behind a motorcyclist. All of a sudden he starts looking back at us, slams on his brakes and flips us off. Then he speeds up, slams on his brakes again and moves over into the left shoulder of the freeway, we had to swerve to get around him.

A few minutes later we are being pulled over by the highway patrol because a car in the far right lane (behind us) thought that we were trying to pass the motorcycle while in the HOV lane. Luckily the officer believed us and talked the motorcycle guy out of giving us a citation.

Lesson to be learned: Stay AWAY from motorcycles!!!

We had a pretty good time at the Aviary until at the end of the bird show Levi started to be naughty. He has recently started spitting, I don't know where he picked that up, but he spit and almost hit a guy in the back. He was of course disciplined but it just makes me so frustrated!


Finally we headed home and the boys went down for naps.

The rest of the day was uneventful until Jace woke up at 10:30 p.m. and just wanted to be held all night. Guess how much sleep I got?

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