Pitter Patter.......... tried to be a holiday spoiler ?

We were waiting for this from past 5 months. We had intentions of getting into lot of activities during this occasion. At last the much anticipated Memorial Day long weekend was here. Initially we had planned to fly out of the town, but dropped it and decided to explore the town……….

Well, as always this time also I was the one who came out with the agenda for the weekend. Two of the must visit places were “Houston zoo” & “Galveston Beach “. I planned to visit Beach on Sunday and Zoo on Monday.

The previous week we went and shopped swim wear for our little princess and the king also got himself some beachwear.

On Sunday (Beach day) we woke up to a very rainy day. God, how is that u can hate something that u normally love just because it caused inconvenience at the moment. Well rain for me that day was like an uninvited guest. We had no option but to write off our trip to the beach. I re assured myself that the beach is just an hour drive and we will drive there very soon one weekend.

The next day, Zoo day, we woke up to a sunny day. My happiness knew no bounds. I started doing all the chores with newfound energy. I wanted to finish everything at the earliest. I was frying papads for our brunch and I heard the rain god’s thunders. I could feel my mood plummet like my papads in the oil. Only difference is my papads puffed up and my mood stayed low……………

It started raining so heavily that it looked like somebody had punched holes in the sky. The sound of rain woke my little one. She looked so happy to see the rain which right now was the villain spoiling our weekend.

Somehow husband dear didn’t want to be defeated by the villain and inspite of the heavy rain, he decided that we still go forward with our trip to zoo. So off we started, dressed in our jackets, boots and umbrellas. I was not so ecstatic about getting out.

I kept wondering would there be anybody else like us who is out of his or her wits to visit the zoo on a rainy day like this. I didn’t have to wonder for long… When we reached the entrance to the park (the zoo is further inside the park) I was astounded to see the line of automobiles. I wasn’t so subdued after that.

From the spot we parked our car to the entrance of the zoo it was about 15 minutes walk. I guess that walk will be one of my little ones most treasured in her days to come. She kept leaping at every single puddle that she saw. Dear husband kept chasing behind her with the umbrella. She was so delighted that she was getting drenched………….I wished I shared her attitude at that time.

When we entered the zoo we saw that almost all the animals were engrossed in their affairs without showing any obvious reaction to the pouring rain. I learnt that day, that rain definitely is not a deterrent in animal world…

Apart from the usual wild animals that I have seen in almost every zoo that I have visited so far, I saw an animal called “okapi” for the first time. It’s a cousin to giraffe , the description said. It has such a long tongue that it can lick it’s own eyeball………I also saw an “anteater”. Anteater is almost the size of a big dog. I wondered how does he grow so big eating only insects? I kept searching for its face. It’s definitely a very weird looking animal…

Finally after seeing Lions, horses, Tigers, Giraffe etc and also a ride in the carousel for our little one we decided it was time to leave. We were coming towards the exit gate and saw the aquarium and took a detour. We spent about 15 min admiring the sea world. We didn’t step out before making sure that we wear the jackets that we had taken off inside the aquarium. Getting our daughter wear the jacket was arduous.

When we stepped out…we had the biggest surprise of the day………… It was bright and sunny outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In 15 min , the rainy wet day had transposed into a sunny evening !
It started as a merry chuckle from our daughter and soon all the three of us were laughing very hard. I remembered reading somewhere " Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colours appear ". Anyways our weekend was well spent and memorable.