Trip to the Zoo with our house guests.
I wore a huge Vietnamese rice patty hat, sun glasses long shirt and long pants. It gets hot here in Florida and I hate the sun. I liked holding my husbands hand and walking a boardwalk that weaved thoughout the Brevard County Zoo. If you asked me my favorite part of the zoo experience:
The squirrel monkeys. They are tiny and perfectly proportioned. It was fun to watch them hold leaves and use their delicate little fingers to pick things up. What keeps them interested all day? To put myself in that situation, if I were at my size caged, I would have about as much room as my very small living room, only there would be no books, no chairs, no sewing machine, no mirror, no nothing to keep me interested. I'd have to amuse myself with leaves and swing from vine to vine and that would be it.
I also liked seeing the brightly colored birds. Turquoise and gold....ummm...and animals with brown and orange paws....and ohhh....the giraffe's, so that's what giraffe fur looks like big, brown squares.
I liked hearing how some male or female animals were rented for a week or two to mate with their resident animals. The rhinorsoursus was getting a female and the giraffes had a female giraffe visiting already. She was a darker brown and she walked around like a queen.
I didn't like the bird area. The bats in their cave scared me and some of the birds were much too free. I don't like being that close to the animals. I couldn't wait to get out of their cage.
I also like my husbands silly comments about how the bald eagles were plastic and he just hates that and then upon closer look you could see one of them blink their eye and
other silly stuff that I can't remember while writing this I just remember the feeling of laughing and laughing some more....oh and I remember that he help me find the ladies room and that he held on to my big Vietnamese hat and sun glasses when I went in!
It was a fun day. I really enjoyed getting out into nature with my husband and our two house guests.