A continuation of the summer..in the fall...

I know.. wow where did the time go?! From my last post until now I can tell you exactly what I have been doing, paper after paper after financial analysis after financial analysis. The last semester of my degree is kicking my butt! Thankfully I only have about 3 weeks left and the worst is now behind me. So back to what we were talking about, our awesome summer vacation!

After leaving Florida Zak, Pip and I made a stop in Atlanta where Zak spent most of his childhood/teenage years growing up. I love Atlanta and really enjoy visiting our family there especially because there is a Chick Fil A on every corner! While we were there for a few short days we were able to catch a Braves game.. they lost but who cares, we were in America drinking American beer watching American baseball!!

After Georgia we stopped in North Carolina to see some more of Zak's family and his friend Tyler was totally awesome and made a trip down from Virginia to visit us while we were there! Anytime we visit the Charlotte area it isn't complete without a trip to the Whitewater Center, where people seeking a thrill can ride rapids while the Olympic trials aren't in town! 

From North Carolina we flew to Ohio, where Zak was born and where we were married back in 2009! We had such a great time visiting everyone in Ohio and loved seeing all of our family! 

Zak and our nephew Alex at the Cincinnati Zoo

Ok so it was really hot at the Zoo (it must have been at least 100F!) and there were kids everywhere.. don't judge us for having a beer at 10am, ok? Or was it the turtle you were looking at?

And a trip to Ohio is not complete without mexican food and debauchery with all of the cousins! 

Zak and Emily!

Jackie (my sister in law) and her boyfriend Chris

Zak's awesome cousins! :)

So we did it, we managed to visit all of our family from the south to the north and had an incredible time... next blog will continue on to the 'vacation' part of our vacation!!

Thanks for reading

xxx

A crazy trip to the zoo!

Zak, myself, and one of his friends Ben decided to take a trip to the Zoo, and we all agreed that this was by far the BEST Zoo we have ever been to! The zoo was just south of Seoul, and pretty tricky to get to by train (meaning we would have had to take a train to Seoul and then had back south on a subway to get there) so we decided to drive! It is not too difficult to find your way around Korea with a car, you just tend to get stuck in a lot of traffic.. I mean the whole country is the size of Indiana and there are over 48.6 million people living here.. your bound to get stuck somewhere! We managed to get to the zoo in a little over an hour, which wasnt bad at all. Upon entering we quickly realized that this is a HUGE zoo!

 It housed every animal imaginable even the fennec fox whom we concluded is a close relative to Pip... (notice the size comparison in the ears.. LOL)

The primate exhibit was my favorite, these are not your average orangutans and baboons!

 Unlike America, Koreans find it extremely entertaining to feed the animals. And I had to agree that it is pretty funny seeing monkeys catch shrimp fries! Every animal was up and moving around as opposed to be lethargic, and they all gave quite a show! Somehow these monkey's got a hold of a mylar balloon and were playing 'monkey in the middle' with it...

Zak and Ben's favorite exhibit were the Kangaroo's. We were able to go inside the pen and feed them and pet them!! Here is Zak while we were waiting for the Kangaroo pen to open up, can you sense his excitement? LOL

Ben had a goal to hug a Kangaroo, and im pretty sure he succeeded. Although it was not photographed we witnessed him hugging not one but two kangaroos! Here is one of him feeding a 'roo!

And me:

After walking around the Zoo and eating waffles filled with jam we stumbled up the bear show.. apparently Korean's are all about training bears to do tricks!

And for the grand finale: A crazy monkey with a mohawk in the nursery:

Thanks for reading!