Mother/Son Day at the Zoo

I think I'm going to change the name of this blog to Wendy's Daily Disasters! I took the kids to the zoo today for a little mother/son bonding. I was looking forward to going without any friends and just enjoying the kids and spending the whole day there. I realized when I was waiting in the parking line that I didn't have my zoo pass (that gets you free parking) because it was in my wallet that was stolen. I guess I looked pitiful enough and didn't have any cash so the lady let me in. There were only about 30 yellow school buses in the parking lot...no joke! Every time I go to the zoo during the week there are about 30 cars total in the whole lot. The ticket line was all the way to the parking lot. We had to wait for 30 minutes to get my new pass and Ethan's new pass. That's me waiting with two kids all alone. As you might imagine, Ethan started wandering around and behind the counter and Caleb was screaming by the time we got out of there. We had some new person who had no idea what she was doing trying to help us. Once we got inside, it didn't get much better. There were so many kids that I was overwhelmed. I had Caleb in the stroller and Ethan was walking. There were a million kids at every exhibit pushing little Ethan out of the way. He looked so tiny next to those heithens. I asked him if he wanted to leave and we would go do something else super fun and we could come back next week but he said no...of course. I ended up taking Caleb off-roading down some stairs to get away from those kids and closer to the exit. Ethan didn't realize that he missed half of the zoo. I wanted to get him a shirt but the sizes were weird and were scattered all over the store. I ended up getting him an animal and waited for 10 minutes to check out. Yes, the stupid zoo people had one person running the gift shop during this super busy day. Once we got to the car Caleb had had enough so I fed him while Ethan "drove" the car. (He sat in the driver's seat and played with the windshield wipers, blinkers, any knobs that he could push or turn.) At that point, I really didn't care. Luckily both kids slept the whole way home while I tried to calm myself and de-stress! So much for my wonderful day!