During my July visit to my brother and his family, we went to the Boras Park Zoo as we do every summer. This year it didn't rain (last summer it rained so hard we didn't even go into the park, we went back home instead). There were a few other things that didn't go as planned though.
Like the youngest nephew throwing up in the car around the time we had gotten too far to turn around and go back home.
Like we had forgotten the bag with extra clothes just in case something like this happened. And even if we had had brought the bag, my sister-in-law would still have had to wear the dress he threw up on.
Like when we found a store with a small selection of baby clothes, they didn't have the kids size in shorts so we had to buy a size that made him look like the cutest hip-hopper ever.
Like when we were unloading the car of all the stuff you bring, the button in my sister-in-laws dress decided to break in two so she almost flashed all her assets to the world. Brother found a safety pin in the car for a temporary fix.
Like when we were walking from the car to the park, construction work forced us to take the longest detour into small neighbourhoods we've never seen before. The boys almost fell asleep.
Like when we finally arrived to the park, we were so hungry we ate almost all the sandwiches we had brought. They were supposed to last the day, not just one meal.
But as I mentioned, the weather was fine.
So we started the tour and checked out the penguins, the red panda and so on. I was taking pictures as always. Then we came to the African animals and this year the elephants weren't together with the other animals. They had their own space so we went there to have a look at my favorite animals. They had a new baby elephant running around playing with this mother. And then the handler asked my oldest nephew if he wanted to pet the matriarch elephant. That's the one on the picture for this post. That was the last picture I took that day. Because just after I took that picture and a minute before my nephew actually petted the huge elephant on her trunk, the battery in my camera emptied itself. Quickly I changed to my spare battery. Which turned out to be empty as well. I had forgot to load the battery the day before. I didn't have a battery charger so I had to charge the batteries in the camera and I was using the camera.
So I don't have a picture of my nephew petting the elephant and what are the odds he will be getting another chance in future?
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