Colorado Springs

Good day everyone!  We had a fabulous week here.  To start things off, here's Brooke trying to show us her belly!  Jokes on her cause she was wearing a onesie-dress, so when she pulled it up the onesie was still there!! And then she kept trying to pull the onesie off!

Brooke also crawled under the coffee table this past week to read a book.  Unfortunately as soon as I started to pull out my phone she decided to back out and I got the picture just a second too late, drats!

Brooke has also started jumping!  It's really cute and a lot of fun.

On Saturday we took a trip down to Colorado Springs.  We headed out early in the morning to go to the zoo!  We really like the zoo down there.  They have an Australia section that has wallabies that wander around and can be pet!  When we got there a trainer was working with one of them and giving it snacks, so it just stood there in the middle of the path and let Brooke pet it!  It's hard to beat a zoo experience like that!

We also got a little lucky with the tiger.  The tiger cage is really big, and usually the tiger chills in the back and is hard to see. Brooke definitely didn't see it the first time we went by.  The zoo has VIP packages you can buy where you get to go do animal encounters, and someone was there for an animal encounter that day and picked the tigers!  They're not super easy to see in the picture, but there are people on the other side of the fence from the tiger.  There's a zoo keeper or two, and a few people with them, and they were feeding the tiger through the cage!  It was especially great as a tiger is very possibly Brooke's favorite animal, and she got to see one so close!

They also had some bald eagles which I assume cannot fly for some reason or another as there was no top to the cage.

And Brooke said hi to them!  What a patriotic baby.

And here's a meerkat watching out for his colony.

We went down to the giraffes toward the end and were planing to feed them, but there was a HUGE line to buy lettuce.  We learned our lesson, we should have gone there first as no one was at the zoo when we first got there.  Anyway we didn't have time to wait in the line, so we just went over and watched some other people feed them and got an up close picture!

We also took another picture under this giraffe.  I don't know how many of you know of the old picture from last time, but it started raining while we were at the zoo so I took shelter under the giraffe and Monica got a picture.

And here's my taking shelter!

We finished up our trip by visiting the monkeys.  Brooke liked them, and she waived at them all!  Sadly none waved back...

And we remembered to get a picture with the zoo sign on our way back out to the car.

Now the thing that really took us to Colorado Springs was that Niki's lacrosse team, the Westminster Griffins, had a game!  We went to support and cheer!  They were fortunately able to squeeze out a victory, so that made it even better.  After, Brooke got a chance to go talk to aunt Niki and ask for a scholarship.  Unfortunately, I guess there's some kinda NCAA nonsense so Niki said not yet... but she did still give Brooke a cookie so win-win!

After that we drove home and I was wiped out!  We put Brooke down for a nap and I fell asleep on the couch.  I think it was sitting in the sun at the lacrosse game that did me in.  When we were at the zoo it was cloudy and not very hot, but the sun came out at the game, and even though I'm sure the temperature was low it just took it out of me.  My head would throb and I'd get a little dizzy when I stood up, but fortunately after my nap I started feeling better!

Then that night Monica and I tried out a new board game I got off Kick Starter.  It's a game called Vast: The Crystal Caverns, and I had heard a lot of great things about it.  It's a really fun game, and every player plays a very different character, so it's almost like everyone is playing a different game.  That made it very interesting, and we had a lot of fun playing it.  We're excited to play it again and see what the other players are like to play.

I also spent a few nights this week working on card art while Monica was out at random things.  It's for my new Egypt themed game.  I have 3 more cards to go, so I'll hopefully finish all of the art this week.  It needs a little more work, and the game still needs a name, but I'll provide more details as the work continues.

Well, I think that's all I've got for this week.  I hope everyone is doing well!!  Have a wonderful week.