I hate when everyone has the same idea

We were running late for our Little Gym class this morning, so we decided to bag it and head to the zoo with Grandma instead. Wouldn't you know a million fricking people would pick a Friday at 11:30 to also go to the zoo. I have never seen it so packed, 3 parking lots were full and people were lining the sides of the road a good mile or two away also. We bagged that too after driving around for 45min looking for a parking spot. It was so crazy I actually called to find out if something out of the norm was going on. The only thing that the staffer mentioned was they had no shuttle buses today so everyone had to drive. We are going to try to go back Sunday or Monday. We did stop at a park by the house for an hour...the poor kids spent 2 1/2 hours in the car, didn't get to go to the Little Gym or the zoo so we had to do something fun.