Oz at the Zoo

After Dylan's birthday party, I took the next couple of days off to "relax." First order of business Monday morning was to finish party clean up. Then it was time for the zoo. The Stoneham Zoo has an Australia exhibit so we went to see the Koalas. Well, at least that's why I really wanted to go. I have a serious love for those squishy little "bears." We go to the zoo a lot (as you know) and I seem to post lots of pictures of animals here (as you know) so I'm going to do it a little different this time and mostly just post cute pictures of my little animals. Plus the koalas were sleeping and not in great photo position, so I didn't take any of them.

Cade was fascinated with the Macaw.

At The Bird Show
(Did I mention that brother in law, Joe and niece Emily joined us?)

Cute Face

Giving the Bird Our Donation

Look! An Eagle!

Statues of bears are cool!

So are statues of wolves and pups!

After spending the afternoon at the zoo, we took advantage of my folks being around. Mike and I grabbed the rare dinner by ourselves and actually had time for real conversation. But, not until we spent an hour on the phone with our builder finding out about a broken cabinet. That darned broken cabinet was the beginning of the end of a low key build.

Ever since that day, a month ago now, our NH condo has been a bit of a nightmare. It's kept us constantly busy, every day seems to bring a new problem\drama and unfortunately, our relationship with the builder has really gone downhill. The nitty gritty detail is just too exhausting for me to go over and talk about anymore but trust me on this, our vacation home has really been the exact opposite and really made life not very enjoyable. We keep hoping that the endless drama will stop re-unfolding every day but sadly, it keeps coming. Our bright sunny attitudes we try to keep up are constantly beaten down and we are plum worn out. We did actually get to move into the place last weekend but it's still not officially ours. And due to the unpleasant situation with our builder, moving in was coupled with a lot of negative feelings and it just wasn't comfortable to be there. I found out just about an hour ago that our scheduled closing for tomorrow has hit yet another road bump. So, the story continues. When the place is actually ours, we'll be doing a major happy dance and gladly sharing lots of photos.

But, back to the story of Dylan's b'day and my parents trip here for it. I guess I also have to mention that at our zoo visit, my Mom and I got in a bit of a tiff. (Sorry Mom, had to be said...all part of the story.) So the zoo day wasn't all that fun and our dinner date that night was more necessary to get away then a fun treat night for Mike and I. Because of having had too much together time with the folks, I decided it was best for me to go to work Tuesday morning. I still took off Tuesday afternoon because we'd long ago planned for my parents to stay with Cade while Mike and I took Dylan to see Monster's University. It was a cute movie and Dylan did great. Sat very well with his 3D glasses and really took in the movie. Afterwards, the three of us went to get ice cream.

Tuesday night, my Mom and I had to work things out. So instead of the much needed down time I was supposed to have on Monday and Tuesday, it was a very emotional couple of days which was terribly exhausting as well. When we close on our vacation home....someday I hope....we will be very quickly be booking a week there to do some serious chilling out. We have been running so fast for so long, I think it's going to be the sweetest drop and do nothing week I will have every had in my life. Oh, and yes, my Mom and I hashed it out and are fine now.

This post officially ends anything of note I have to share that's happened to us in the last couple of months. The rest of our lives has been dedicated to the NH house. I very much look forward to when I'm able to share news of a closing on it and pictures of the completed project. Maybe next week???