Rob's family

Tracey and I decided that the weather was good enough today for a trip to the zoo. Packed up the family and headed down to Brookfield. Tracey's folks give her a family membership for her birthday each year. It works out great for us - if we arrive and the weather is lousy or the kids are crabby, we can punt and not worry about having spent $35 for an hour. Melinda is taking a much more active role in deciding where we're going at the Zoo. "I want to see the Leopards first." She's inquisitive and loves to run around playing with this exhibit or that - moving levers, and lifting flaps. She's been to the zoo so many times, now she knows where things are. Upon entering the children's zoo - "Dad, I want to go pet the goats." Very self assured, but also tentative at times. Petting little goats is fine, but she remembers an aggressive (big) goat from another time and shies away from the big ones. It's tough to look at Gretchen and not consid