The Nut Farm? No Meg, its the Zoo!

Today we went to church and as a suprise to the kids we went to lunch and then took them to CALM (Bakersfield's California Living Museum). We felt like we needed to do something special on the last day of summer vacation. But not too special, don't want to set the standard too high.Calm is a small zoo- takes us about an 1 or so with Brian- 30 minutes max with the kids and me, if we don't play at the playground. So the kids ask where we are going and I say its a suprise. Meg asks "Are we going to the nut farm?" She did not mean Knotts- she actually ment a nut farm. Of course we reply no and she continues to guess where we are going when Mark says "This is dad's way of going to CALM, silly". Brian did comment on how maybe he should take a different route, as the kids seems to know the back way as the only way. We had a great time, despite it being 105 (at least). We had lots of water, met a snake named Jewel- red to black: friend of Jack, red to yellow: will kill a fellow. Meg tried to get a kiss from the deer (YUCK!), but it nibbled on her dress, instead. Holly yelled "Bear" and enjoyed seeing the bears, Jenna hung out- being her joyful self, and Mark just wanted to swing from the monkey bars.