Putting Pieces Back Together and Zoo Fun

It started with the vacuum breaking. Then Baylee's movie player decided not to work (with a little help from Ben trying to fix the squeak). Next the fridge decided not to work on the refrigerator side. My crock pot lid decided to shatter while I had dinner nicely cooking in it. Finally, our internet went down. And to top it all off, the house we are currently renting is being auctioned on the 10th, so now we are getting to find a new place to live until we find a house. So, my mom and I went and found a new vacuum. Ben ordered a new part for the fridge which will be here in 7-10 days (we've been eating out a lot), and three modems and multiple wonderful conversations with Cox later, he finally got our internet working again. So to the two people that tagged me, sorry, I will get to that soon. We are starting to get things back together. But, why is it that when something breaks everything else has to break with it?

With all the stress I've been feeling with everything (yes, I am an easily stressed out person), we decided we needed a little fun. So, we used our free zoo passes we got from the 4th of July Diamondbacks game, and delt with the heat. It was fun, but we all needed a shower by the time we got home. Here's a few pictures from the zoo (ok, a lot):

Here's what Baylee would look like if she was a joey. Although they don't have kangaroos at the Phoenix Zoo, they have wallabys. Are baby wallabys also called joeys? I guess I should have read the differences between kangaroos and wallabys better.

Here's what Baylee and I would look like if we were standing under an elephant. This zoo doesn't let you that close to the elephants though, so just in case you couldn't tell these are fake.

Here is Ben and Baylee on another fake animal. Obviously I didn't take a very good picture since you can't tell what animal it is. Does it really matter though since it's not real?

We did eventually find the real elephants. Baylee demonstrated her animal calling skills that she picked up from watching Go Diego Go. However, as loud as she tried to call, the elephants didn't want to come. They were a little too into eating.

As I stated before, it was pretty warm outside. This was Baylee's solution to that problem. The little rod that holds it up broke, so she just hid under it until we came to something she wanted to look at.

We finally came across a little area for kids to play in water, and some kids sure were going crazy. Baylee was just happy to be able to get out and cool down. I guess there are two slides inside the little cave thing behind her, but she was happy with just the water outside.

Nice and cooled off. Looking at myself in this picture I wish I had the excuse that I had just been in the water with her. Unfortunately I just look bad.

After the water I think we looked at a few more animals and then gave up on the walking in the heat and rode the "train". I don't know why they call it a train becuse it's really a tram like the ones you ride at Disneyland when they make you park really far away. Well, that basically concludes our day at the zoo. We didn't stop to take too many pictures of the animals, but if you want some we probably have any animal from previous zoo trips.