Mother's Day in Bloomington

 We celebrated Mother's Day in Bloomington this past weekend.

It may have been a day late (actually a week late) but definitely not a dollar short.

Alissa and Nathan met us at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington.

We all enjoyed a picnic lunch in the 85 degree sunny weather and then tried our hand or should I say hips at hula hooping.

It was a fun way to start our day.

 I found this sweet little Soli sized hula hoop and she loved it.

 Here is my family posing for a nice Mother's Day picture.

 After lunch and hooping we went into the zoo.

It is a very nice small zoo with some very interesting animals.

We started with Cheddah taking Tiz and Soli on the merry go round.

 We came upon this zoo keeper with a snake.  I high tailed it out of there due to my dislike of snakes, but Soli enjoyed touching the thing!

Notice her little purse, she had purchased it at a rummage sale that morning and she would not put it down, best 50 cents ever spent.

 Posing by a tiger statue.

 Uncle Cheddah took Tiz in the hurricane wind machine.

 There is a splash pad park there, too, so Tiz enjoyed some time in the water.

It was such a hot day that it felt good to get all wet.

 Soli and her papa checking out the playground.

 Courtney' s sweet family.

 After the zoo we all went out for Chicago style pizza at the same place where Lis and Nathan had their rehearsal dinner.

Here are the ladies.

After dinner, Courtney, Paul, Lis, and Nathan went out while John and I babysat.

We took the girls to the Toys R Us which was across the street from our Quality Inn.

We spent two hours walking around and looking at all the cool stuff.

In the end, Tiz ended up with a cute little doll and Soli got a Dora flashlight, camera and binoculars.

We had such a fun night with them.

By the time we got back to the motel, we watch a little TV and then all four of us went to bed.

 On Sunday morning, we found a near by park and played for awhile.

 

 

 Soli and I relaxed in the butterfly garden.

 The sisters had fun on the playground equipment and

 Tiz learned to do a flip over the bar.

It was a successful fun morning all the way around.

We had lunch at Meatheads and then took a tour of the IWU campus.

Tiz also got to spend some time with Cheddah, Lissa and the dogs. 

We got home around five on Sunday, tired but so happy from another great weekend.