More Y&G randomness, now at the zoo

Apparently it's my year to just run into people from Youth & Government. Now I'm looking at everyone at Target and in front of me at the grocery store and wondering if they're from Y&G and I somehow don't remember them.

Last Tuesday, with the spousal unit still out of the country (I really need to post about that but it seems like it will take a really long time and I haven't had a really long time to sit down at the computer for a while), I rounded up some free passes and took the boys to Brookfield Zoo. I figured the Stingray Bay exhibit would be a hit with stingray-fascinated N and P always loves the zoo. I apparently made a good choice because N has been asking almost every day since, "We go to zoo today?"

Anyway, we did the stingrays first and that was really cool - one of them totally splashed Bugaboo and I in the face and you really can just lean down and touch them. Totally neat. We wanted to go to the penguins next but I got completely confused and we walked the wrong way and ended up at the dolphins - also a big hit but not the right way.

Course corrected, we were wandering past the new Ibex Island now that they've torn down the old one and moved the ibex to a new home, and as we are walking up to the fence to see what we can see, I realize I'm walking right towards Mike B., advisor from Naperville Central High School. Who also happens to be Assistant Camp Leader Josh's advisor and a sortof co-advisor for Dan-the-Full-Figured-Man. So there's kindof a theme in who I'm running into and it's kindof freaky. Mike's eyes popped out of his head when I told him I'd run into both Josh and Dan the week before at the Arboretum (side note - Josh's eyes popped out of *his* head when I told him on Friday Dan worked at the membership desk, he had no idea). It's definitely strange to see Y&G folks outside of Y&G events but strangely reassuring, too.

So now I'm thinking about future field trips (Centennial Beach in Naperville is coming up next week) and wondering who I might run into there. Eww, that's not a place I want to run into Y&G folks. None of them need to see me in my swimsuit, and vice versa.