Remember when I said here that we didn’t have any plans for spring break and I might have been freaking out about it? Around midnight on Monday, I decided that would just never do and came up with this plan.

 I can’t just wait around. I can’t just play it by ear. I can’t. I can’t. I had to get some fun on the calendar. It may not be pinterest worthy but a few post it notes sure got us motivated.

When the girls woke up Tuesday morning they were so excited to pick activities for the week.

I told them their plans were quite aggressive and they assured me that if we ran out of time we could just skip what they had picked for me and their dad. B was more kind and said that he would pick up my slack at the Kitchen so I could take the girls for some fun this week.

We started our beautiful Tuesday by heading down to the zoo…along with every other family off school for spring break. The parking lot was full and there were about 10 school buses of field trips as well. Heck no! We don’t dig a crowd so we quickly changed up the plan. The girls were hungry so we stopped off at Steubens to come up with a new plan.

Annabelle had never been to the Denver Botanic Gardens and Gwyneth was eager to show it off to her. It was just a few minutes from Steubens and we nearly had the place to ourselves. It was a gorgeous spring day, the views spectacular and the flowers in bloom.

We first discovered the children’s garden. These little ladies were happy to just be outside soaking up the sunshine.

The girls have declared the gardens one of their new favorite places and can’t wait to return. We don’t have a membership but when our zoo membership expires we may just have to switch.

We agreed that if the school buses were gone when we drove past the zoo we would venture in for a bit. As luck would have it, the buses were leaving as we were heading in and it seemed many families were leaving for the afternoon. It was much less crowded (still more than the gardens), but we thought we would give it a try.

The highlight of the zoo had to be the rogue goose that attacked a woman just passing by our table as we sat enjoying an afternoon snack. She was just walking along, minding her own business when a goose swooped in and bit her right on the back of the head. The goose then proceeded to squawk and nip at the other geese roaming around the tables. We took this as a gentle nudge to move along and Gwyneth has soundly added geese to her “I’m not a big fan of those…let’s run!” list.

Think I wore these ladies out yet? Yeah, I had hoped so, but nope! They were ready for some mini golf at Boondocks.

Annabelle and I both each got a hole in one and Gwyneth was pleased when she kept her ball on our green instead of in the rocks. Actually, she wasn’t happy because these girls are fiercely competitive, but she held it together and didn’t throw or whack anyone with her club. Victory? I’ll take it.