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Aug. 31st, 2008 07:54 amStill alive! Quite happily so, if just the slightest bit sunburnt.
We took the kidlets to the zoo yesterday and went to Stingray Bay, which is a big shallow pool at waist level where stingrays ZOOM AROUND like they're part UFO, and you can reach into the water and pet them. Which apparently they like because it helps scrape off the parasites. Anyway, stingrays are very soft with remarkably solid bodies, and when they get uppity they get up a really good head of steam and splash everyone in the immediate area. IT WAS AWESOME.
We also saw antelopes and lions and baboons-playing-tag, and in the tiger enclosure one of the tigers was up on this twelve-foot-tall tree stump looking very National Geographic, though we suspected the real reason he was posing was that he couldn't figure out how to get down and was waiting for the zoo to close so he could carefully crawl back to earth.
Also, during lunch, I discovered that the seagulls in the immediate area could catch french fries with their beaks if the fry was thrown accurately enough. This information, conveyed to the kidlets, ensured that we had no leftover french fries whatsoever. (Yes, I know you're not supposed to feed them, but goddammit those seagulls have SKILLZ.)
By the time we got home we were all incredibly exhausted, so we watched cartoons with the kids and talked, which was nice. Except that every time we talked loud enough to be heard, the kids would turn the volume up slightly, so we'd talk a little louder, and I'm sure you can see the impending vicious circle. :D I have to say, childrens' superhero television looks a look cooler than it was when I was a kid. Also there was UNEXPECTED ROBERT PICARDO in the live-action Ben Ten movie that premiered last night.
And then we had delicious pizza and went to bed. It was a Very Good Day. :D
We took the kidlets to the zoo yesterday and went to Stingray Bay, which is a big shallow pool at waist level where stingrays ZOOM AROUND like they're part UFO, and you can reach into the water and pet them. Which apparently they like because it helps scrape off the parasites. Anyway, stingrays are very soft with remarkably solid bodies, and when they get uppity they get up a really good head of steam and splash everyone in the immediate area. IT WAS AWESOME.
We also saw antelopes and lions and baboons-playing-tag, and in the tiger enclosure one of the tigers was up on this twelve-foot-tall tree stump looking very National Geographic, though we suspected the real reason he was posing was that he couldn't figure out how to get down and was waiting for the zoo to close so he could carefully crawl back to earth.
Also, during lunch, I discovered that the seagulls in the immediate area could catch french fries with their beaks if the fry was thrown accurately enough. This information, conveyed to the kidlets, ensured that we had no leftover french fries whatsoever. (Yes, I know you're not supposed to feed them, but goddammit those seagulls have SKILLZ.)
By the time we got home we were all incredibly exhausted, so we watched cartoons with the kids and talked, which was nice. Except that every time we talked loud enough to be heard, the kids would turn the volume up slightly, so we'd talk a little louder, and I'm sure you can see the impending vicious circle. :D I have to say, childrens' superhero television looks a look cooler than it was when I was a kid. Also there was UNEXPECTED ROBERT PICARDO in the live-action Ben Ten movie that premiered last night.
And then we had delicious pizza and went to bed. It was a Very Good Day. :D
