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Fun In The Sun

Cheryl and I took a few days off this past weekend to visit with her parents down in Florida. We left early Thursday morning and Zoe was very well behaved on the flight. As soon as we got there we did some swimming, which was a constant every day. On Friday we packed into the car and went to the zoo. Zoe seemed to enjoy hanging out with the animals and she took some time to feed a giraffe. Unfortunately I didn't wait to pose properly, so the pictures of that aren't very good.



She also took two rides on the carousel.  Once on a stationary animal and then again on one that moved. I couldn't tell if she liked one more than the other, but once it got going, she seemed more happy than scared.



It was so hot out that as we were leaving, since we had a change of clothes for her, Cheryl took her for a dip in the fountain. It's hard to say which one of them enjoyed it more.



As I said, we went to the pool every day. The weather was great and as long as you stayed in the water, the love bugs wouldn't bother you. Zoe thoroughly enjoyed playing with her sand toys in the water.



Cheryl picked up some sidewalk chalk one day and we had a great time drawing on the driveway. Unfortunately, not all of the chalk made it to the cement.



It was a great time. Hopefully by the next visit Zoe will have some water wings and be kicking herself around the pool instead of climbing her father. You can see all of these and more in Zoe's set on Flickr.

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