Kandula & Kidman

We ventured to the zoo Friday. The weather was awesome (high 60s in November - gotta love the Mid-Atlantic region). This trip we remembered to ask someone to take a family photo! It's not perfect but you can see all three of us.

We got an early start and made it to the zoo in time to see Kandula the elephant get his bath. There were some VIP-types checking it out too. At first, we just say guys in suits and I assumed it was political muckety-mucks. Then I noticed a tall slim blonde, who was way too fashionably dressed to be a political anything.

Lo and behold, it was Nicole Kidman! She's in Washington filming a movie. Sorry, we didn't take any pictures of her (it seemed so rude since she was about a foot in front of us). She was smiley and doesn't look so skeletally thin in person. She's in one of my all time favorite movies, Moulin Rouge, so I was very excited to see her in person.

We also saw the cheetah cubs, which are practically all grown up and the tawny frogmouths, Patrick's favorite bird. It was a great trip. As you can see below, all the excitement wore Kasper out.