today was exciting! my dad took off work. he had to go on an important interview in jacksonville. jacksonville is a big city about an hour away from where we live. mom and i drove him there. we dropped dad off so he could make his meeting. mom and i set off to find a place to pee. we walked around a bit. the talking lady said there should be a restaurant near where we parked the car. mom and i looked and looked. no restaurant to be found. i ended up peeing on a tree in this field. classy. hey, i'm just a kid and i really had to go. peeing on a tree is better than peeing in your pants.
i was kind of hungry so mom and i went back to the car. mom punched in restaurants and a whole bunch came up within a mile of our location. we followed the talking lady's directions but no restaurants were found. we drove around and around. the talking lady recalculated again and again. eventually mom just pulled into this business park. there was a deli! perfect. mom and i went in. i got an order of french fries. mom and i shared them. when we finished it was back in the car. mom drove us back across the street and there was dad, looking very confused. he jumped in the car and mom punched in our next destination into the talking lady.
we drove for a little bit. we ended up in this parking lot. what's this place? mom said- read the sign. oh yeah, i can do that. ZOO. we're at the zoo!
me and my dad, and mom spent the rest of the day at the zoo. it was awesome. jacksonville zoo is pretty good. we saw lots of neat animals and we even got to feed some of them. mom got a little cup of nectar and we walked into this screened off area. as soon as mom walked through the door a bunch of brightly colored birds flew over and landed on her. they walked on her head and down her arm to drink the nectar. one cheeky bird tried to dump all the nectar out. silly bird. i got to hold the cup too and birds came over to drink. it was great fun. i tried to pet a couple of the birds. I LOVE BIRDS! we visited with the skates and rays too. mom got a small cup of chopped up fish and i watched her feed the rays. that was pretty cool. they just swim over and hoover up the fish with their mouths. i touched a couple rays on their fins. it was neat.
we tried to feed the giraffes but they weren't interested. at the end of the day we got a quick snack of pretzeled  bread and back to the car we went. it was a super fun day.