Lions, and, Giraffes, and Elephants! Oh my!

Unpacking is boring. The St. Louis Zoo, however, is not! Admission is free, and apparently on some Saturdays so is parking. 1 mile away.

Cute lion, in a tree. Cute, because there was a nice, big fence between us!

Precious little giraffe family.

The zoo was awesome. Walking around in the hot sunshine was pretty enjoyable too. We've been missing Harriett, so the zoo was nice, and for whatever reason, the video below reminded us of her. It was pretty cute.




A story where I crack myself up, by Faith:
I was looking pretty close at the alligators, when a kid behind me--like right behind me yells, "Whaaa?!"
Holy crap!! Jerk kids and their pranks. I was pretty sure that was the alligator snapping at me. I grabbed Tim's arm, covered my mouth, and whipped around. The mom was CRACKING UP, and told me that her kid had said, "Where?!" (special accents down here)
Apparently, he wasn't trying to scare me, he just didn't see the alligators that I was so incredibly close to.
I muttered something like, "Oh, I thought he growled at me...I mean, rawrrr, err...um. I mean, but not a growl, just, uh. Nevermind."
So I left.

About that unpacking...Nearly all dishes and other fragile things arrived in tact. That is until I started putting them away, and immediately dropped a glass in the sink, where it shattered into the garbage disposal! Grind up some glass. THAT, my friend, is worse than nails on a chalkboard. I didn't think there was anything worse than that. It might be bad for the appliance as well. Dang! I was just starting to enjoy that thing.

Another reason to miss Harriett: either I have gotten really clumsy, or I counted on her for a lot of kitchen clean up. While cooking, I've been dropping food, and waiting for someone to come running for snack time/clean-up duty.
I should probably get a broom.