Lets get caught up

We did manage to get to the Tombigbee National Forest on Saturday. It was about an hour's drive to Choctow Lake, where we found a beach for swimming. It was a beutiful day and we ate our snacks and watched the boys splash around. Sunday we took it easy, did some housework, watched some football. On Monday I took the kids to Memphis to check out the zoo. We took the scenic route up, taking highway 9 to Oxford to have a snack under the trees on the courthouse square where Luster drove the wrong way around the monument in the final scene of The Sound and The Fury. We hopped back into The Climax of Blue Power and rode on up to Memphis, arriving at the zoo at one. Here you see the children in an upbeat mood in front of a gazelle, then later with the pandas in a faux Chinese palace they were pretty worn out. We left at 5:30 and got home at 8:30. I did not know it took that long to drive to Memphis, but I am glad we did it. The zoo was impressive, it included a herpetarium, an aquarium, polar bears, black bears, a tropical bird house with a walk-in bird habitat and much more. We were not able to see it all.