Today is a special day. My mama, the woman who I hope to be like, had a birthday. It was a pretty significant one too (I won't tell you her age-you know the rules) but I have been asking her for months what she wanted to do. I offered a party, a dinner, a vacation-anything she wanted. Well, my mother is not much on planning anything these days and all she kept telling me was that she wanted to spend it with her grandkids (she has 10) Then she got sick, nothing major, but enough to make her not feel like doing too much of anything. She never nailed down any plans, but called today saying she felt better and wanted to go to Wild Adventures. My siblings all had plans due to her last minute decision, so the four of us packed it up and headed to Wild Adventures for our first trip of the season.
We got there first, and headed on in, waiting right inside the gate for my parents. Bennett was so excited when he saw MiMi and ran to her yelling "Happy Birthday" It was the cutest thing, and captured on camera by the WA crew. We didn't get to buy the photo like I had intended, but more on that later. Levi was sleeping in the stroller so mama just got a quick peek at him. With the gang all together, we started on our funfilled day. Now, I must tell you the we knew the day wouldn't last to long because it just felt like it was going to rain. But we decided to do as much as we could before we got wet. We hit up the train/truck/bumblebee rides first. Bennett just loves Peanut the turtle. He was able to touch him once before and has talked about him every since. Next up was the carosel. I think he ended up riding that twice, never letting MiMi get to far away. We could feel the weather changing and decided to head over to the safari train and try to see the animals before our trip was over. Sadly, the train was shut down due to lightening. When the first drops hit, we knew we couldn't make it back to the car without getting wet. Quinn took out his phone and checked the weather. The rain should pass quickly, so we headed under the giraffe shelter to wait it out.
The giraffe was just kinda hanging out in the rain, the monkey was putting on an entertaining show for all of us stuck under the shelter. It was really nice to just slow down and enjoy a little nature for a while. That is, until the giraffe went and hid in his house, the rain turned to hail, and it started raining sideways! Wow. For a split second, we all thought it was a tornado and I have to admit we were all a little scared. Well, except for the boys. Bennett was asleep and Levi was enjoying being held. As quickly as it came, the storm passed over us. The giraffe came out of hiding and came right up to the fence, as if to tell us "it's safe now" What a God moment for me. If God will equip an animal with the knowledge to flee from danger, surely he has done the same for us. We just have to listen and know when to get out of the storm.
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