spring break day 3

today was another beautiful day in tulsa, so we took advantage of this lovely weather and went to the tulsa zoo.  apparently most of tulsa had the same idea because the place was PACKED!  i couldn't believe it!  we actually had to wait in line to get in!

we met some other teachers and their girls there.  it was fun to watch colby because one of the girls is his "good friend" and the other little girl actually kissed him a few weeks ago! {of course he didn't think that was a good thing to do, and he punched her!}

all of the animals were very cooperative today and were out of their cages!  even the polar bear was back!  we also got to see a pig paint a picture with his snout!  they had a drawing for the picture, but i didn't win...bummer!  they also had a new animal i hadn't seen before.  apparently he was lost somewhere in the 80s because he was still wearing his leg-warmers!!

photo of the day #77

totally rad

after the zoo, the varmints and i had to buy the food for the wednesday night meal at church.  i signed up to cook tonight since it was spring break, and i wouldn't be stressed about having enough time to cook.  the last two times i've cooked i've burned something unintentionally.  i know how to cook!  last time some less-than-logical person put wooden spoons in the oven and i burned those.  anyway....

tonight i didn't burn anything!!!  if fact i had to get creative in order to get everything cooked!  so my creativity project today was cooking!  the stove would NOT work tonight, so i had to come up with a way to brown hamburger meat, cook rice and make queso without the use of the 6 burners that i desperately needed!  

talk about multi-tasking, i made the rice in the microwave {one boil-in-bag at a time every ten minutes} and melted the velveeta for the queso in two crock pots.  the biggest obstacle was how i was going to brown 10 pounds of hamburger meat in less than an hour without the use of a stove or an electric skillet!  i managed to find an electric griddle and just made do with that.  do you know how hard it is to brown meat on that flat surface?  pieces of meat kept falling off, and grease was all over the counter!  i was panicking!  

i was unsure that i could everything ready by 6:00, but thanks to carnita and her sweet boys' help, we got it all done with 2 minutes to spare!  woo hoo!!!  the next time i volunteer to prepare the wednesday night meal, we're having sandwiches!!!!

quote of the day:  "The zoo is a place for animals to study the behavior of human beings." ~author unknown