Today, IBM was having a family event at the zoo in Atlanta (for those of you who may wonder why that's relevant to us, my dad works for IBM). The kids had never been to the zoo before, so we were all really excited about it. Unfortunately, Andy is on call today, which means that if something happens he has to be able to drop everything and leave, so he couldn't go with us, which was quite disappointing (in fact, it's almost 11:00 p.m. and he's at work right now), but that's life sometimes. We still had such a great time. Of course, mom and dad were there, and Steph and Jose and Erin and Lee all came, too. 
At the very beginning they had a big, stinky bunch of flamingos, which were pretty neat.
Of course, we saw lots of very cool animals:
Drew in front of an orangutan, 
Dad and Evan in front of a gorilla, 
Alli in front of a meercat, 
Me and Drew in front of a zebra, 
Evan in front of a rhinocerous, and lots more. IBM also had all the free snow cones and popcorn we could eat, which was nice.
After we saw all the animals, we went and rode the train. Here's me, Alli, and Evan sitting on the train:
And here is a really awesome picture that Jose took with my camera after the train ride. Dad, Evan, and Drew are watching the train go by, and Jose knows way more about my camera than I do, so he did something with the shutter and made it look like the world's fastest train was going by. Pretty cool.
After the train the kids rode the carousel with Erin and Dad.
Apparently, Drew was getting a little motion sick. The rest of us are a bunch of motion sick wusses (except for Jose who was taking pictures for me), so we watched them ride.
Here's another awesome picture Jose took. This is what the carousel really looks like:
Drew in front of an orangutan, Dad and Evan in front of a gorilla, Alli in front of a meercat, Me and Drew in front of a zebra, Evan in front of a rhinocerous, and lots more. IBM also had all the free snow cones and popcorn we could eat, which was nice.
After we saw all the animals, we went and rode the train. Here's me, Alli, and Evan sitting on the train:And here is a really awesome picture that Jose took with my camera after the train ride. Dad, Evan, and Drew are watching the train go by, and Jose knows way more about my camera than I do, so he did something with the shutter and made it look like the world's fastest train was going by. Pretty cool.After the train the kids rode the carousel with Erin and Dad.Apparently, Drew was getting a little motion sick. The rest of us are a bunch of motion sick wusses (except for Jose who was taking pictures for me), so we watched them ride.
Here's another awesome picture Jose took. This is what the carousel really looks like: This is what Jose was able to do with fancy camera work (I have no clue who that lady is):
After that, we decided to try to make one more trip to the snowcone/popcorn place, but they made an announcement that severe weather was coming and all outdoor activity had been cancelled, so we started making our way back to the car. Just as Erin was cramming Drew's casted arm into her purse for protection (it was the best we could do in a pinch), the bottom completely fell out and it starting POURING rain. It was pretty funny because everyone started screaming and running, and we were all absolutely soaked.
After that, we decided to try to make one more trip to the snowcone/popcorn place, but they made an announcement that severe weather was coming and all outdoor activity had been cancelled, so we started making our way back to the car. Just as Erin was cramming Drew's casted arm into her purse for protection (it was the best we could do in a pinch), the bottom completely fell out and it starting POURING rain. It was pretty funny because everyone started screaming and running, and we were all absolutely soaked.I'm not sure why Drew looks so miserable in that picture. After the rain died down (it still hasn't really stopped) a really great rainbow came out, which I stopped the car just to take a picture of. The picture doesn't do it justice.
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That was the funnest day ever, truly. I loved that day!!
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