AN: It's the weekend & I never thought I would be writing this much I mean sure I thought a couple chapters but its fun although on Monday it will go down to only a couple days a week as I'm usually to tired to eat dinner let alone write a story. :)

"Look ZoZo we're here!" Said Meredith pointing out the archway of the parking lot that officially said that they'd arrived. "Roarrr" said Zola in response as if she actually knew that they were there. "I'll get her into the stroller if you grab her bags and the camera" Derek said getting out of the car and walking to the back opening the trunk. "Ok where'd you put the camera?" Meredith asked looking on the floor up front and not seeing the black bag that held the camera. "It's in the back next to Zola." He said unbuckling Zola and strapping her into the stroller. "Ok are we all ready?" She asked making sure they didn't forget anything important. "Zo tell mama to stop worrying!" "Ma...ma" Zola said not exactly understanding what Derek said but hearing mama was enough for her and it made Meredith smile. "I'm just making sure" she said walking along side of Derek as they walked into the admission booth. " two adults and a child she's one" Derek told the teller as she handed them the receipt and a map. "Are you pushing or am I?" Derek asked her not caring one way or the other " you can if you want I'll take pictures" she said holding up the camera and snapping one of him pushing Zola.

The first thing they stopped to look at were the polar bears "look Zo those are polar bears" said Meredith snapping a photo of one jumping into the water in the clapped her hands and smiled she had seen them before but when ever they seen an animal whether it be a neighbors dog or the elephants at the zoo she always clapped. Ready to move on?" Derek asked having seen enough of the bears "yea I'm ready wanna go to the African exhibits?" She asked knowing that it was Zola's favorite part. "Yea we can head over there next" he said turning Zola's stroller around and heading toward the Kenyan part of the zoo.

"Over there Zo see the Giraffes and look there's a Zebra." Derek said pointing in the far corner of the enclosure. "Oh look over there is an elephant." He said turning her toward the elephants that had their own fenced in area away from everything else. He stopped her at the lowest gate so she could see for herself how big they were " look ZoZo there huge" Derek said when Meredith walked back over "ok I got them, I got two tickets one for you and one for her I get on free because I have to hold her" she said holding up two printed tickets that clearly said carousel on them " alright come on then we should get going they just started letting people on for the next ride" he said nodding his head in the direction of the carousel with people walking through the door.

"Ok Zo what do you want to ride?" Meredith asked the one year old grabbing her hand and letting her pull her towards the tiger. "Is this the one you want?" She asked knowing that last time Zola had wanted to change animals half way though the ride. "You know we can't change once we sit down" she explained to the girl who w currently trying to scale the tiger. "Ok this is the one then" she said picking Zola up and putting her on the tiger and holding on to her waist as the conductor had instructed her to do since Zola was to small to be unattended. Derek who had been looking for his own animal of choice settled on a hippo next to Zola. "Zo were going on an adventure" he said smiling as Meredith held the camera up and took pictures. Just then they heard the loud speaker come on instructing parents to hold their kids and for older riders to stay seated at all times they then started moving slowly at first but getting faster. Zola had the biggest smile plastered to her face as they gained speed giggling as the wind from the speed hit her face. When Meredith looked over Derek had a smile on his face too.

When they finally had Zola buckled back into her car seat in the car leaving a little earlier than planed because it started to rain they decided what they were going to do for dinner. They just decided on ordering pizza because Zola was looking a little tired they had no doubt she'd be out by time they got home. After they picked up the pizza and were on the way home did Zola finally fall asleep. "I'll take care of the stroller and bags if you want to take her inside." Derek said pulling into the drive way "alright we can eat after I put her down." She said unbuckling Zola and making sure her head didn't hit the door on the way out.

Once they had eaten and had taken care of the rest of it they settled down to watch some chick flick on tv but they didn't really pay attention to it instead they talked about life. Life in general, life with Zola, life as surgeons they just talked about everything like they usually did when they had time with each other.