Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 49

Elysia hadn’t planned on taking the kids to the zoo. After all, what kind of creature hadn’t they come across during their five years spent deep in the woods?

You could find all kinds of animals in the zoo deep in the woods.

The triplets liked animals, sure, but they weren’t exactly over the moon about them.

However, the mere mention of an outing had them bouncing off the walls with excitement. They threw on their clothes in record time, eager to follow Elysia out the door.

The family of four hailed a cab and headed straight for the water park to check out the ‘Jindale Eye‘.

It was the trio’s first real outing, and the array of attractions had them gawping in

amazement.

They wanted to try everything.

Elysia was on a tight budget, but the kids had never had a chance to experience anything like this. She didn’t want to dampen their spirits, so she splurged on tickets.

If they were out to have fun, she was going to make sure they had the time of their lives, no holding back.

She took them on the Ferris wheel and also the roller coaster.

Evan, the brave one, even dared to take on the giant swing.

Emmett, a little more timid, steered clear of the high–adrenaline rides, so Elysia took him to

feed the fish.

for a bottle of fish feed, and there was Emmett, grinning like a Cheshire cat as he

joy in the

her phone and capturing these precious moments

thrown its share of curveballs, but so

more than enough.

three healthy, adorable kids that

beat settling for some deadbeat just to

with horror stories of abusive

and before they knew it, twilight

2006

their place, the kids were so wiped they conked out on the bed without even washing up, off to dreamland in seconds.

hard and were now paying

at her little ones with eyes full

planned to take them down South to settle in a little town

worked hard, she knew she could raise them

own room. Drifting off, her thoughts were full of hope for a

Elysia was up with the

– no word from Tarquin yet. But she

called up the Royal Community office to confirm the afternoon appointment for the divorce

occupied in the morning, so the divorce was delayed to

the afternoon.