my family: National Night out at the Zoo

As quoted by Wikipedia:

National Night Out is a community-police partnership held the first Tuesday of every August since 1984 sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the U.S. and Canada. It aims to increase awareness about police programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, and other anti-crime efforts. Initially communities held lights-on vigils. Now, many communities hold block parties, festivals and other events to help bring neighbors together.

So, Boston was holding this night at the Franklin Zoo. At first I was reluctant to go, b/c Brian wasn't able to, and I had to take the kids by myself, and drive and try to follow directions in this twisted city with no help. Alas, I buckled up and and decided to power on. This event was to last from 5-8 pm. I left at 5:30--directions said it was a few miles away, taking no more than 16 minutes with traffic. Well, not far, I can handle this! Needless to say, I took several wrong turns and ended up on the other side of Boston and got totally lost. And hour and a half later we arrived.

Fliers said there would be free food and entertainment. We arrived just in time for them to close the lines. Darnit, Lance was REALLY hungry. I asked about all the vendors--CLOSED. Hmmm. Nowhere to stop on the way home, this was bound to be a long night!

I kept trying to distract him, but with the pungent odor of cheese in the air how could he forget?

Good grief!

I guess that's what an 800 pound block of cheese smells like!

On to the animals . . . If you squint you can see the Zebra and Giraffe in the background.

Do you see the Lion on top of that rock?

Lance was really intrigued by the elephant remains. He made up his own story and told me to tell him it was true! Gotta love those kids' imaginations! :D

Because everything was closed, and Lance really couldn't get his mind off of food, we decided to head out.

That is until he saw this . . .

Playground, Food . . . Playground, Food . . . I guess he wasn't hungry enough to leave this behind!

This is Spencer peering up at one of the many giants there. Those big kids trampled the babies! It was total chaos here, with big mamas yelling and all!