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June 11, 2003
Going to the zoo on a sunny city day...
Went to the zoo on saturday - I think this was the first warm, sunny weekend day since forever, so everyone and their brother was there.
Including the lovely and talented Jocelyn, who brought her brother, her lover, her daughter, and her son (so her daughter brought her brother - see, everyone and their brother was there!).
I forgot that the zoo is more than freak-watching with animals. did you know that kids learn about animals and evolution and animal interaction at the zoo? they have educational placards and everything - how had I forgotten this part of zoo-going? I'm seriously so used to going, making fun of the freaks in lace-up spandex trousers, pierced bellybuttons proudly crowning their enormous guts, then looking at the animals and feeling sad for their obviously boring lives, I overlooked the learning part of the experience. typical.
Lessons learned at the zoo: lace up spandex trousers are a privilege, not a right. If your belly (spine to navel) is wider than your head, your rights to said trousers can and should be provoked.
I finally got my camera to work again - hopefully, you'll forgive the grainy nature of the handspring lens:
we saw penn jillette by the warthogs |
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the lovely and talented jocelyn and jake observe the Penn in his natural habitat |
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over-excited by the Penn appearance, Heather tries to calm down by focusing her energy into an unnatural fascination with the polar bears |
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and, last, but not least, we saw a pony. |
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Posted by Heather at June 11, 2003 01:20 AM
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