Wow, six days of nothing but fun and relaxation are coming to a close. You know, it’s around day #4 that one begins to forget what it’s like to work for a living, and you become very accustomed to not having a set schedule. There are very few things that make me happier than being able to do what I want when I want with no real obligations. I especially love that lack of dread when I wake up in the morning because I don’t have to do anything if I don’t want to. But unless I win a huge sum of money right now, it’s back to work I go tomorrow.<\/p>\n
We spent our last day of “freedom” at Brookfield Zoo<\/a> so we could catch the Butterflies<\/a> exhibit before it was closed for the season. I was browsing the zoo’s site last night and realized that if we visited the zoo just three times in a year (which is typical of us anyway), we’d save money by becoming members. So I signed up immediately. And of course now I feel all special because we’ll be invited to member only events and the like. I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this before. There have been many a weekend where we contemplated going to the zoo, but once you add two adult admissions and the parking fee, the cost is $24, so we’d end up not going. Now that we’re members, I’m sure we’ll be going much more frequently which suits me fine because there’s nothing I love more than photographing animals.<\/p>\n That being said, the photos from today should be up in the next few days. I will try to work on the butterfly ones tonight if I can, but I’m getting pretty sleepy already, and now that I have to get up at 6 am, I’m less inclined to stay up until midnight. Any rich people out there want to give me a large donation so I don’t have to work anymore? Yea, that’s what I thought. :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, six days of nothing but fun and relaxation are coming to a close. You know, it’s around day #4 that one begins to forget what it’s like to work for a living, and you become very accustomed to not having a set schedule. There are very few things that make me happier than being able to do what I want when I want with no real obligations. I especially love that lack of dread when I wake up in the morning because I don’t have to do anything if I don’t want to. But unless I win a huge sum of money right now, it’s back to work I go tomorrow. We spent our last day of “freedom” at Brookfield Zoo so we could catch the Butterflies exhibit before it was closed for the season. I was browsing the zoo’s site last night and realized that if we visited Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}