{"id":694,"date":"2014-08-05T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/thegirls\/?p=694"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:56:39","slug":"a-family-mini-cation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/thegirls\/2014\/08\/05\/a-family-mini-cation\/","title":{"rendered":"A family mini-cation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to our family mini vacation, here are a couple of quick pictures to share. The girls and I made a poster so that Great-Grandma would still have her “kids” around her. It also appears that Great-Grandma has two new doctors on her case!<\/p>\n

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Now on to our family mini-vacation! Kevin lost his accrued time when he switched jobs. Although he was paid for the unused time, he still wanted to have a little time with us.\u00a0 He took off a single day, Monday, so that we could take a two day trip. We decided to go north once again. For the past two years, the girls and Kevin have wanted to go to the zoo. We also talked about going to the Wisconsin State Fair. Turns out, the zoo and fair are about 2 miles apart. This became our weekend plan! We start with the zoo. First thing we found were the flamingos.<\/p>\n

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As usual, the special exhibit this summer was the stingray encounter. We know from last year what awesome “handlers” the girls can be, so we visited the stingrays. Each girl fed them some cut up fish and shrimp parts.<\/p>\n