Almost Minnesotan

Today we had a thought of going to the zoo for a bit. We got a zoo membership this year for Christmas and our church is only a block away from the zoo. So after church we decided to stop by for a bit to see some animals. My "great" idea was to go see a new exhibit that was built last summer, but we haven't been there yet (due to lack of membership, thanks Grandpa). The exhibit is called Russia's Grizzly Coast and it is outside! If you just go to the front page of the website you get the idea of what it was like to visit today. Well, it was around 20 degrees so we thought "hey, it's warm, let's go see it". That's the part where we look and think Minnesotan, however we proved we are not true ones. After looking at the animals for about 15 minutes, I was frozen and so was Lance. We were in "church" clothes and my toes were frozen solid. My excuse of course is that we were not dressed for looking at animals outside, but the true thing is that we are still wimps and not very Minnesotan yet. We did go in the zoo and walk through the tropics section to thaw out. The next zoo we will be visiting will be in Central Florida and it will be more my style of weather hopefully.

P.S. I really can't complain about the snow and cold yet. Not because I don't want to, just because it is too early in the winter and it would be a lot of complaining. However if anyone wants us to come live with them in one of the warm weather states, I'm there when you offer!