We disappeared for the past few days.... Maelie and I headed off to Granby for our mini summer vacation.
We left Sunday bright an early, early enough that we were alone on the road for the first hour... and had NO issues at all driving by Montreal. We arrived at the zoo at about 9:30 and there were already tons of people waiting by the gates! We parked close to the Amazoo part since I figured our afternoon would probably be spent there in the heat! It was hilarious once the gates opened. People by the dozens ran in SO fast with their coolers. At first I wasn't sure why... but then when we walked in and saw people grabbing long chairs and reserving tables with their coolers... I understood! They were not new to this that's for sure.
Maelie and I locked up our swimming stuff and off we went to the zoo part.
I forget the name of these guys but they really looked like a mixture of rabbit, dog and kangaroo!
We of course saw the typical zoo animals such as zebras, rhinos, elephants...
and cute giraffes! This one must have a hippie side to it... it is a tree hugger.
After a quick tour of part of the zoo, Maelie needed to get refreshed! So we headed back to the Amazoo area and went in the wave pool. I didn't take pics in the main wave pool area because I didn't bring my camera as I was in the water. I felt it was too risky to just leave my camera where anyone could take it so I locked it up.
I did manage to take a few pics just before changing into my bathing suit.
After a refreshing little swim, Maelie took a ride on a dromedary camel.
I found this cool frame of Maelie for sale at the zoo! kidding of course.... they don't have this kind of animal there!!
There was a cute mini farm area where you could walk in and pet the animals.
We never get tired of petting farm animals!
We visited the new exhibit: the rays. We happened to stand near the lady who was watching the exhibit and making sure people didn't touch the tail. She was very knowledgable about the rays and loved sharing what she knew! Maelie enjoyed petting them.
hmmm how about a little surfing?
"Sure mom! Hey dudes! Look at me.... I'm surfing!"
We went to visit the parrots. We bought some nectar to attract them onto us... but apparently this parrot just wanted to check itself out in my sunglasses.
Maelie loved feeding the parrots! They were so adorable! and not very shy....
After our adventure at the zoo, we went out for supper and then went to the motel to end the day! It was a rather 1980ish type motel. Clean... but not in style! The next morning we headed off to Sherbrooke to visit a place that I was curious about. Maelie SO didn't care about going to see Lune de Miel. It was all about bees. I enjoyed it a lot and thought that the quality of their tour was excellent. The place was VERY clean, and the lady was very interesting and knew her stuff....
It was very hot so we checked into our hotel early. Maelie was quite impressed with the size of the king sized bed!
We swam for quite a while and then went out for supper. Maelie was all dressed up nicely :) When we came back, we layed down on the ned and watched Canada's Worst Driver. We laughed so hard we were both in tears on the bed!
At about 6 am in the morning, after a wonderful sleep, Maelie woke me up. This is how it went:
"mom, i'm sorry i woke you up"
"uh... no you're not"
"you're right. But i wish i was sorry"
LOL She cracks me up!!
We got up and headed back to Granby for another day at the zoo and amazoo. Maelie started off with the lazy river before the crowd got too big. She was on her own for the whole ride!
It looked really relaxing! I didn't want to go in because I had a feeling I was not going to be able to get out of the tube at the end!
Our plan for the day was to enjoy the pools when we were hot, and visit a few of the animals from the day before that we really enjoyed. Of course we had to return to see the parrots! This time, 2 of them flew onto Maelie's head and were fighting for the nectar. One parrot stole Maelie's cup and flew away with it!
Maelie poked her head in the dome and i pointed to the left so she could see what was right beside her... a huge cat eating a HUGE bone! If you look closely you will see Maelie in the dome peeking out.
Of course, we also had to stop by and see the rays again! Maelie was really impressed with them... she talked about them a lot!
Before lunch, Maelie mustered up the strength to to on the Anaconda ride! She is working herself up in roller coaster sizes....!
There she is in the 3rd buggy.
She also tried the bumper cars a bunch of times! She really enjoyed picking up speed and hitting others.
After the rides, we spent the afternoon in the wave pool and in the volcano pool as well. It was awesome! By 5 pm, we packed up and left since the drive back was 3 hours plus. Maelie passed out about 2 minutes after we left and slept until we entered Ottawa! Lucky her!
We had a great few days of summer vacation. We just wish it would have lasted longer!!!
