new friends and animals

When we first moved back to our house in Jax Beach Lula and I needed a reprieve from all the craziness of the previous weeks, so we took a break from unpacking and headed to the beach. As luck would have it we ended up near a little boy and his mom. We started chatting. As it turned out we had a lot in common! His mom, named Bekki, graduated from St. Joe in St. Augustine. I went to CPS, so we knew some of the same people. Obviously she had a little boy... his name? Luke! (my brother's name). Luke is a couple of months younger than Lula (actually only one day younger than one of her besties, Olive). Besides the name coincidences, our kids, and the fact that we just hit it off we decided we needed to hang out again!

We finally did so this past week when we met up to go to the zoo. It was so much fun. The Jacksonville Zoo really does have a lot to offer and Lula and Luke explored almost all of it!

My favorite thing by far is to feed the Giraffes! Lula gets a bit nervous, she will hold the lettuce, but wants me to actually give it to the giraffe. I guess their tongue weirds her out. I think it's awesome. This one's name is Luna. We fed her last time and we know it's her because of the two upside down heart shapes on her chest. She is so sweet. "Come on Lula, feeeeed me. Here, I'll make it easy, I'll just reach my tongue allll the way over to you... it's cool I swear."  

The zoo even has a splash park and Luke and Lula had it mostly to themselves!

My second favorite spot at the zoo is butterfly hollow... it is almost like a fairy tale, actually if you look closely into the bushes you can see little fairy houses!

 

These two are so cute together. They got along great and were pretty much on the same page all day... even at the end when they made it clear they were done...

It was a great day... i'm so glad Lula and I decided to go to the beach that day!