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We were blessed with great weather this holiday weekend, so we took advantage by taking Mason to a Zoo and an outdoor Air Museum.

The Binder Park Zoo is located on the eastern outskirts of Battle Creek Michigan.  I took this photo below of a Peacock gettin’ all jiggy wit it for his Peacockess.  If you look closely, there is a lonely guy peacock looking on from behind (right side).

When we walked up to the platform overlooking some Mexican Wolves, Mason exclaimed, "Look at that BUCKET!" - referencing a shiny pale with water.  Nature is in the eye of the beholder.

On Memorial Day we traversed to Willow Run Airport which is home to the Yankee Air Museum.  A free tour of the grounds allowed visitors to get up close and personal with a nice array of vintage flying war machines.  This next shot gives you some perspective of how big the 677 Flying Buttress is!

Actually, I just made up that name.  It’s some Special Forces bomber though.  See the people at the right reading the plaque?  That’s something you don’t get to do with a 3 year old.  So you have to make up the details on your own.  Mason is standing with his mom - kneeling in the forefront.   There were a couple of fly-overs by the Navy Bad Ass Squadron #205 and two, F-14.5 Hellfire Cat Flingers!  Or something like that.  It was fun.