So the real explanation is this. We went to the zoo on saturday with Melissa and Grant. Santa was flying in on a helicopter to make an appearance, and we thought we needed to see that.
So there were these funny little old ladies wearing felt christmas tree headbands and jingle bells, carrying around a huge set of reindeer antlers. (they were supposed to be reindeer antlers anyway, but who knows what kind of deer they belong to!)
They would let kids pose under them for a photo op. I couldn't get back far enough to get all of the antlers and all of Max in the picture. Pretty exciting, right?
So there we were, waiting for Santa. Max wore his very christmassy skeleton hand gloves.
Festive.
As I think I mentioned, Santa flew in on a helicopter. Pretty new fangled if you ask me. It was pretty fun to see the helicopter fly in and land though. Max enjoyed it.
He kept motioning for applause. "Ho ho ho!"
And then up came the little train that was going to take good old Santa around the zoo for a parade. I specially include a picture of this train for Grandpa Ken. I know he'll love it! Check out the lawn mower or whatever is pulling it. It totally looks like an old train engine!
And off went the parade. Here are Max and Grant waiting for Santa to come by.
Just two dudes sitting on a wall, hanging out.
And Santa rode by in style, at the very end of the train. He doesn't actually look that comfortable if you ask me.
I think he was heading to his "breakfast with Santa"--only $35 per adult. Totally affordable, right?
And since we were at the zoo, we figured we might could see some animals.
A kind of creepy camel.
We actually saw real camels. Max really enjoyed seeing the camel relieve itself. Yuck. He also was lucky enough to happen upon a giraffe reliving itself and was very interested. Is he a boy or what?
Can you see the snow leopard? He was pretty.
Here's a fuzzy cute little red panda sleeping among the bamboo. So appropriate. And cute.
It's so nice that Melissa has a zoo membership and brings us along with her. We love it. And of course we like Santa too, breakfast or no breakfast.
8 comments:
Laws girl! I can not get over your photography and Frazz does an awesome job as your subject.
That is one freaky camel if you ask me. So perfect for the dentist to sit on.
I love Frazz's skeleton gloves. Those are perfect. WAIT! Maybe just maybe his name isn't Frazz....maybe it is Jack and he wants to take over Christmas! That would explain the scary camel too......
As usual, great photos and fun storytelling
Love you
Grampa Guy
the december guy, with the santa hat and cloud of smoke (on the side of your blog) cracks me up.
Now, you see? Not one of my guesses worked out, darn it. I didn't even think about Santa and a helicopter. I am so disappointed in myself. And that lawn mower train? Never occurred to me. That M of yours is a very useful girl, besides being cute and having adorable babies.
I think Frazz will not soon forget snow leopards and antlers, red pandas and red suited flying men. Around here there are just gray dogs and strawberry ponies.
Isn't it interesting how, when you put a camera in your hand, suddenly the world becomes so wonderful, you can hardly take it in. Leave the camera home, and you might miss everything.
Wait - I just saw the header! What a mystical, alien thing! Do you also find fairies on your window sills?
I was going to guess that they were reading "imogene's Antlers" at the library for story time. I was way off. 35 dollars for breakfast at the zoo is ridiculous. santa or not. seriously. they probably just served bacon and sausages from some animal carcass they had on hand. probably. that's my guess. so, you're better off anyway.
When I was 12, I was luck enough to see an elephant going number 1. I was, and still am, impressed with the volume of pee involved. I guess it is a guy thing.
I just love to look at your pictures. I hope that you are saving these blogs in a separate document so that you can have them permenantly.
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