Too Much Panda

too much panda, originally uploaded by Reid Pierce.

Scott turned, gulp, 40 Friday and since I don't have a photo of him to post I thought I would share this photo he took at the zoo. He really wanted to do something special to celebrate, like buy a Harley and drive it across country or go City Slickers style and wrestle cattle on a range out west. He had to settle with a weekend in DC where we met up with the Tovskys of Philidelphia, Penn. and Randall-Kims of Reston, Va. I sent Scott to get a haircut in preparation for the big event, but the hairdresser must have forgotten to use scissors because he can still tuck his hair behind his ears (can you say mid-life crisis?). Then we put on the duds and headed out for the most expensive meal of our lives Friday night in Old Town at a place where the bar tender makes his own tonic and maraschino cherries and the chef sends you delectable "gifts" between each course. The entire meal took four hours to eat. The next day we took the kiddos on a trip to the National Zoo where we saw, among other things, pandas, hippos, elephants, zebras, gorillas, lions and monkeys. Sawyer was really into the whole experience and was able to pick out the animals, unlike our trip to the San Diego zoo when he was nine months old. My favorite was the lion that roared and looked like he might attack us at any moment. Sawyer's favorite was an anteater that ran across the glass cage right at his eye level. Scott's favorite was the gorilla in the window who kept puking and then slurping it back up over and over again. If we'd had a camera, Scott could have made a million dollars, or at least gotten a million hits on You Tube. Happy Birthday Babe. Maybe you'll get to lasso a bull on your 60th, after all, 60 is the new 40. More zoo photos here.