photo skillz.

I took the boys that I babysit to the zoo this morning. I figured we needed some sort of entertainment outside the house or we wouldn't last 8 hours without bloodshed. I managed to set aside all fears that my camera would be destroyed forever/dropped/eaten by an elephant and let the older boys take turns getting some pictures. (I did however keep telling them "please put the strap around your arm...please....don't drop it....you have to be careful). I was really impressed by their pictures! Here are the photos that the 11 year old took:

peacock butt. teehee.

this might have to become my desktop.
blurry but still cool.basically this one creeps me out. he crawled through the tunnel to see the sting rays and took this one.

shark. no titled needed.

These ones were taken by the 7 year old:

the new underwater tunnels are soooo cool.


again, amazing.

baboon? i forget.....



he was much more interested in taking this random picture of lettuce than the gorillas.

fish! he laughed at this and said his mom was grossed out by fish. he asked me to e-mail it to her.

ooooOOOoo. reflection-y.


haha. i would totally have taken a picture of a crab toy at the bottom of the tank. such wit.

We also took a walk to the post office today. It's only a few blocks away but they were whining like i was marching them on a 3 mile hike. They kept asking are we there yet? until I did some planned ignoring and finally asking them to stop. They did stop but the 11 year old said dramatically "The 4 brave explorers march into the scorching heat, their bodies aching with exhaustion..." I put my hand dramatically on my forehead and made pitiful remarks, only to turn to him and see that he was doing the same. Haha. So I told them something to the effect of "unsure if they would make, the brave explorers watched in amazement as through the haze the post office became suddenly visible and saved them from certain death". At first he didn't play along he was just like "yea whatever all i see are houses there's no post office". So then I kept going in charecter and said "But wait! Up ahead what's that?". Right on cue they both were like "could it be? the post office! we're saved!!!!!". ahahaha. they cooled down in the air conditioning and amused themselves with sending my letters down the mail shute.

On the way home the seven year old asked "do you have an gatorade at your house?"
I told him no and he replied "Oh man! I'm losing electrons!"