The day at the zoo was really awesome. We learned about Aye-Ayes (so sad!) and saw the lemurs groom and watched a hippo-po-tom-atus completely lose his shit. I shall give you pictures and captions, a-cause I have a fourth edit (there will be between five and six this November, if anyone wonders why my pace on NANOWRIMO is a wee bit sluggish) and a blog tour to write, in addition to more Jeremy Bunny who is, btw, breaking my frickin’ heart.
But anyway… I thought first I’d tell you what a wonderful daughter I have.
Chicken is awesome. She and I get along very well pop-culturally, and she sends me things like
THIS. In particular, she sends me stuff like
THIS while I am IN THE GROCERY STORE.
And while I was gawping at
THIS (and geawd, it just does not GET any less pretty, does it?) a nice man drove his little cart by, saying, “Are you looking at your grocery list on your phone?”
“Nnunoooo…” I stuttered. “My daughter just sent me a picture of a very pretty boy, and I’m recovering.”
The man rolled his eyes and snorted. “Girls,” he said. “That’s girls.”
Well, yeah. But I’m sure if someone sent a Playboy Bunny to flash across his windscreen, he’d crash his cart too.
 |
For the kids, the trip down to the zoo
was as much fun as the Zoo itself. |
 |
We called the black and white Lemurs “Steve lemurs for
obvious reasons. |
 |
Look at that! Isn’t it fascinating! Trust me– whatever it was,
it was all fascinating. |
 |
Mate said, “Look– he’s trying to hide!” I thought that was
hysterical. |
 |
Multicolored mandrill butt.
Let the commentary commence. |
 |
Zoomboy was self-acknowledged
“King of the world!” |
 |
| The thing about this series of pictures |
 |
| is that they were taken sequentially. |
 |
| This hippo was not only PISSED THE FUCK OFF, |
 |
| He was moving at “outtamywaybitch!” speed. |
 |
| We’re not sure if he wanted his food, or if he’d fucking had it |
 |
| with all the frickin’ people, or even if this was celebratory– |
 |
| Maybe he was just in a good mood. |
 |
But somehow, we don’t thinks so. If you ever see a hippo
charging in the wild? GET THE HELL OUTTA IT’S WAY! |
 |
There is no way to take a bad picture of kids on the beach
at sunset. It’s all beautiful, ephemeral, and joyous. |
 |
| Of course the funny part was, just before these pictures were taken, I said, “Okay kids, don’t get too wet or too dirty, and we can go have a sit down dinner!” Yeah. We ate Taco Bell while they huddled naked and half naked in the backseat of the minivan, covered in sweaters.
I don’t think they minded, do you? |
 |
And this was Zoomboy’s souvenir.
We think he chose well. |
 |
| And this is what I missed out on– Bent Con, which, from all accounts, was a blast. (*waves wildly to Little Vampires people*) Sorry I missed it guys–but I think I was where I was supposed to be 🙂 |
