We left Ann Arbor early on friday, June 22nd on our vacation. The first stop was in Madison to spend the night, drop off our cats at Grandma and Grandpa's since we couldn't haul them with us to all our destinations. Our car was so full of cats and people, luggage for 3 weeks, and Will-related accessories that we had to buy a cartop carrier. As a result of all the crowding, the car drive was not as easy on Will, because it was hard for mom/dad to crawl to the back seat and entertain him when he started getting grumpy. The carseat monkey only works so many times.
Anyway, when we got to Madison we decided to go for a walk and took Will to Henry Vilas Zoo, which is just a couple blocks from the Mueller house. We took him here before but I think this was the first time he could really appreciate looking at the animals.
We spent a lot of time looking at the polar bear and the lion, both of which Will knows from his book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Will also really liked the monkey house.
It took several tries to get these pictures.
On our way home from the zoo we went to the nearby playground. This slide is a giant shoe that's something like 80 years old and gets repainted every year. Erin used to go down it a lot as a child and it's apparently still very popular - we had to politely ask some oblivious children to stop climbing up the slide while we were taking Will down it in order to get this picture.
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