Andreae Adventures: Jampacked Saturday

I don't think we could have crammed in another thing on Saturday and today (Sunday) we were all still recovering from our day.

6am - Wake up and get ready to head out to Bobby's Tri
6:50 - Leave Amanda and Matt's house
8am - Tri starts
10:30 - Leave Tri and head back to Amanda and Matt's house to clean-up
12 - Lunch
1-4:30 - Indy Zoo
4:50-9:30 - Indiana State Fair
10:30 - Drive back to Terre Haute

Whew! We had lots of fun, but it sure was tiring. The girls were troopers overall with all of the activities we had planned for the day and they both really only got about a 5-10 minute nap twice.

It was a lot of fun to watch the sprint tri and I was really proud of Bobby for doing as well as he did, even with not having a road bike (which I'm sure is in the near future, know of any good deals around?).

SWIM 11:13.5 (161) TRANSITION 03:03.2 (359)

BIKE  0:40:49.0 (14.7 mph/358) TRANSITION  01:42.1 (184)

RUN   0:24:29.0 (08:09.7/141)

OVERALL TIME 1:21:16.7

All this with barely any training...it would take me a year to train for something  like this.

Good job to Dave and Emily, too, who also did the race and finished as well.

They thought it was exciting to watch too :)

Next up...the Zoo. We met up with Bobby's friend, Derek and his family, as well as lots of their friends too, as they all made the trip from South Bend to spend the weekend in Indy.  The last time Bobby was there was Father's Day in 2013. It was nice   for him to be along for a zoo trip this time, although it was a little longer with such a  long group, but the girls had fun and we did too. We saw the lions active this time, which was quite educational since they began mating in front of us.

It all went down with the female roaring to get the male's attention, then they circled around each other, then went at it, followed by the female quickly snapping at the   male, then it was over. Normally the lions are just sleeping when we go.

While at the zoo, Natalie says her favorite animal is the zebra, but now that we are   home, it's back to a giraffe. Aubrey seems to call everything a monkey, so I'm          guessing that maybe her favorite animal is a monkey :)

She asked me to take her picture :)

It rained on and off during the race and the zoo, but luckily not enough to damper    our plans.

Lastly, the State Fair which we have never attended. It was EXPENSIVE between  admission, parking, food, and rides. We easily dropped $100 in a couple hours. The girls had a blast on the rides and next year, they should both be able to ride together  in the 36'' rides. This year, Natalie is right at 36'' and Aubrey is at 33''. I can see how you can spend a day at the State Fair because it is HUGE and we didn't even see    any animals or a lot of the free stuff. We enjoyed it and I would like to go back next year for sure, but it is HUGE with a ton of walking and after the day we had, we    were just done by 9/9:30.