"Grandma's Taking Us to the Zoo tomorrow...."

The kids sang a version of "Grandma's taking us to the zoo tomorrow(today)" all the way to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. Seth had meetings that morning and then I drove him downtown to a lab to get some blood drawn, so we dropped of Grandma and these 4 monkeys at the zoo. I don't have too much commentary about the zoo because I wasn't there, but since we left them there for 5 hours and had no complaints, I think it was a hit. The weather was sunny but not hot and they kids loved being there. It was a nice break for Seth and I to get some things done. 

Grandma Janny took them in the bird sanctuary and let them feed the birds. 

I love this picture because you can tell that Jake is holding the food as far away from him as possible because he is scared to death. I'm not sure if it ever got close enough for the bird to eat it.

Zoo Train, that was actually a three little train cars pulled by a car. The review was that it was much too slow. 

Noah's Arch is obviously found at the Biblical Zoo

Jayne and her monkey friend.

While the kids were at the zoo, Seth and I went on a wild drive, with our destination being the lab downtown. We had written down directions but once we got on the main road, we were not on same road that our directions started on. But we headed in the direction we thought was right, following the signs for the city center. The street signs are poorly marked and we aren't familiar with the Hebrew names. So we make it all the way to the lab, guessing as we go, asking two taxi drivers, and make it exactly to the place we wanted without one single wrong turn. It was crazy. I dropped Seth off to find parking and with only one phone, told him I would meet him on the street bench if this was a wrong place. It was the right place. Yay! Huge blessing because the lab closed in 30 minutes. Now the ride home was three times as long, but that's okay, we made it.