Day 3 Horse Show and Zoo

I woke up at 7 and watched TV on my phone...catching up on what I had recorded on my DVR. It was a beautiful crisp morning. I met Lloyd for breakfast, which was magnificent. We then walked around the block and met up with Marie. We got back to hotel, grabbed our cameras and went with Roger to see Caryn and the horses. Lloyd and I were the only ones to go. It was an interesting experience. At 12:30, Roger took us back to the hotel and picked up everyone else (except Marie, who had schoolwork to do). Lloyd and I went to the zoo, which was a cute small-town family zoo. We wandered around and saw bears, foxes, zebras, eagles, turtles, orangutangs, gorillas and small children. Afterwards, we went across the parking lot to the Gage Park kiddie train, the basis for Charlie the Choo Choo and Blaine the Mono in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series. We rode it! We went back to the zoo entrance so Roger could pick us up. We saw Steve there, he had walked from the horse show to the zoo. We got picked up, Roger was excited about Monday and Tuesday's models. He told us we would meet at 7:30 to go to dinner. I came upstairs and just relaxed. At 7, Lloyd and I went downstairs and we gradually got everyone. Roger came in with Caryn, and we gave him his birthday card. We drove to On The Border, where we waited for 30 minutes and then spent the next 90 minutes having Mexican food and great fun. It ended with the wait staff bringing out sopapillas and a birthday song for Roger. We came back to the hotel. Tomorrow we meet at 11 and go to a park to pick mushrooms. The models look good for Monday and Tuesday...