Sacramento

Another business trip-another post. Not so exciting this time though. (Who'd have thought Kansas would be more interesting than California?!).

On the 3rd of January, our little family flew off to Sunny California--only to be met with nine days of thick and heavy mist. Even though the temperature stayed in the 50's, with all the moisture in the air, it felt more like 39 degrees. So most of our trip was spent in the hotel.

While we were there, Evelyn had her second birthday. It wasn't one of those "Whoa! my daughter is two!" moments because she's been acting like a two year old for the last two months. I felt mostly relieved that her age caught up with her maturity. That way I have an excuse for all the belligerence and vocal "No!" 's that keep issuing out of her mouth. Actually, Evelyn was the highlight of my trip. She was adorable (even with the two-hour tantrum during dinner on her birthday). The week of her birthday, she decided she didn't talk well enough for a two-year-old, and doubled her vocabulary. Here's my little 2-year-old:

Evelyn fell in love with the elevator. Every time it reached a floor, instead of beeping like a normal elevator would, it would quack. So Evelyn called it "The Duck." Whenever we got off the elevator, Evelyn would say, "Thank you, Duck!"

This is Evelyn hugging her Star Kitty and her new birthday kitty "Batty." (It's supposed to be "Tabby" but she says it backwards.)

Every day we took Evelyn swimming in the hotel's indoor pool. Evelyn loves to swim and she's very independent about doing it. She gets in the pool and dog paddles away from us as fast as possible.

On our final day in Sacramento, we finally got some sun. We celebrated by going to the local zoo. It was just a small zoo, but very impressive. This was their snow-leopard exhibit. The animals were close and very active. I think they were happy it was sunny too.

Evelyn playing at the zoo:

And a family picture. (Excuse my hair and blame it on the humidity)