Surprise, of another kind..!!

That we all throw surprises is a given. Most likely, we try to make them pleasant if it is our kith and kin in question. Sometimes though, these "planned" surprises can land on you upside down, taking the form that you would least expect them to.

I was long contemplating a visit to the Lehigh Valley Zoo. After having talking through it with my friend for quite a while, we decided to step out to the zoo during the first weekend of March, when the weather conditions turned a tad fair. The weekend did come. And I looked up their website and got in a few tickets as well. We started the drive towards the zoo. 

The drive was an extremely amazing one. The whole valley was still snow capped and looked to be more of a skiing resort than like a place that could contain a zoo in it. My friend's kid was definitely going restless with the drive and he had a few reprimands from his mom and dad.

After we turned over into the venue through all the winding roads, we never anticipated that the surprise would be for us as opposed to being for the kid..! Yes, the zoo was closed for "snow removal" operations and they had put it up on their website (probably a tad later than when we would've got our tickets and started heading out..!)

Considering all the reprimanding that was on, it would definitely not be a wise thing to even let know a future Irwin in the making that the zoo was closed. Next game plan? Try to get to the Crayola experience at Easton. But thankfully, we didn't get into any surprises there, save the fact that it was in the heart of the Easton downtown area and parking was a tad of a hassle.