The Divine - Interrupted

This afternoon I decided to "cook up" some Dairy Queen for supper for our crew. After pickup, we had made a stop for an oil change at the dealership and then stopped at the playground for a play break. And with limited options in the kitchen and church at 6:30, DQ was the way to go for my own peace of mind.

After I ordered and pulled up to the window, I noticed that there was a police car in the line behind us. I felt like I was supposed to buy his supper, so I did - some call it the Drive Thru Difference, some call it Pay It Forward - whatever you call it, I just felt like I was supposed to do that. Well, it was taking a long time and the cashier opened the window to ask me to pull over and wait, and so I paid for the meal behind us and pulled over to wait.

Hayley said, why are we pulling over? We don't ever stop here! To which I replied that we had to wait for them to finish cooking our food, and we're getting out of the way for others to get their food.

Then Hayley, said, "Why did that lady just say she'd just give them a receipt?"

And I said, "because we paid for their meal" and begin to get all excited for a teachable moment. So she said, "Why did we do that?" and I got even more excited and said, "well, because it was a nice thing to do and I wanted to do that."

To which she replied, without missing a beat, "I bet they never will put you in jail now!"

#reality.

Who are we? -Saturday

This happened at our house on Saturday. That's right, we made flower beds... and when I say we, I mean Michael and a teenager from our church while I sat in my chair and napped in the sun... which, if you ask me, is the way for all yard work to go.

 

And this happened Saturday morning, that would be us volunteering to run... a mile... in the early morning... in public.

Hayley put in to run the Fun Run at Peanut Proud this year, and I told her I'd run with her - you know, because this mama can't let little bear take off totally on her own just yet - so then she told Breezy she was running and Breezy said she would run too. Then we talked to Court and she said she'd run too... so the Hayley-diva and her "security" team did the Fun Run.

And we didn't die, which is a win.

Done: Wild Animal Safari, Pine Mountain Georgia

For Presidents Day we loaded up our circus and headed north to the Wild Animal Safari! This was an all-in-one-day trip for us - and was just right for our kiddos - and was a good day for adults too.

The park has some regional animals - such as alligators, donkeys, deer, pigs - as well as exotic - such as zebras, giraffes, lions, bisons.

 The first portion is a drive through trail where you can "feed" the animals pellets out the windows of a moving vehicle. We highly suggest renting one of their safari vehicles because these animals KNOW what the food means... for example, these people didn't....

And there is half an animal in the lap of the passenger.

After the drive-thru portion, you can stop in their little store/concession stand, play skeeball or a few arcade games, and then move to the walk-through portion. The walk through portion accommodates strollers if you are a pusher, but is relatively small and our big kids walked it without any meltdowns or stress over the distance. Even with our circus, the walkthrough takes less than 30 minutes.

Overall, good trip - definitely a did this once and done stop, but an easy 1/2 day adventure!



Official Website: http://www.animalsafari.com/Georgia/
Time Frame: 4-6 hours
Pricing: Adult tickets are around $22, Children around $19, Under 2 free
Perfect Ages: 3+ , 5+ if your 3 year old isn't crazy about animals
Van Rental - based on the size of your group, either $18 or $20; and you definitely want to rent a vehicle

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