If I didn’t know better I would think Alberta had a monsoon season and we were right in the middle of it! That’s right – rain AGAIN today and quite a bit… so that put period to any outside enjoyment for the family and potentially any picnic action over the May long weekend. Everything is SOPPING WET!

Ken had a no miss deadline today that meant he worked through the night dealing with a particularly nasty bug. This meant no sleep, no finishing my pattern and no completing the editing on Ada’s maternity pictures BUT the bug is fixed. And tonight is date night so a nice, quiet evening together.

To make up for the inactivity and housebound nature of the day we bundled everyone up and headed to The Mall. Mainly for the ring-tailed lemur exhibit that has relatively recently replaced a flamingo exhibit. With no baby but FIVE ring-tailed lemurs and a sloth in plain view it is the best exhibit to visit for that particular primate. Added to the adventure was a rare (for us) visit to the gift shop and the purchase of our very own ring-tailed lemur toy! (4.99) My plan is to get some sort of little toy for EACH of the animals the boys cover this year at our local zoo and put them on a shelf to show how much we have accomplished in that area! So I need to hunt down a tiger (I am rather sure there is ONE in this house somewhere) and see if we have an elephant and zebra for next week.

Lemurs at the mall

Isn't he cute?

On our way to the wall we made a stop off at Dollarama to pick up some needed supplies – poster paper for our Elephant and Zebra posters, some hairbands for me (I am still toying with cutting my hair but it grows so quickly that it is financially something  I would have to debate), a book on dinosaurs for Emanuel (he is starting his own dinosaur binder and spotted the book himself!), bubble gum for the biggest of boys (Ken does love Bubblicious) and a package of scrapbook paper and stickers (for a dollar I am horrible at resisting a bit of stash enhancing). All for just over 5.00.

Some of the Dollarama haul

I got spoiled today (on top of the Extreme Pita for supper), Ken picked me up TWO new shirts for the summer. Old Navy has some decently marked tank tops (8.00) and a marked down item (2.99). Both maternity oddly enough and a great help to a very small summer wardrobe!

Shirts

So for a soggy day we made the best of our early evening. Tomorrow I plan on doing the schoolwork no one was motivated to start and maybe make a trip to Michaels to try and get in some craft idea hunting!

Gavin and Emanuel at the fountain