07/07/07

The fellow who owns the building that Gramma Bourne works in hosted a stampede BBQ down at the Zoo this past Saturday, so we tagged along with Gramma and Grampa Bourne and Aunt Sam for some eats and a stroll around the facilities. It was an after hours event, so there were hardly any other humans in the place, just us and a wedding party, and that made it all that much more enjoyable. Some of the buildings were closed off, but we got to see quite a few of the animals who were still outside, and they were all up and about since the day was cooling off and evening was approaching.

With dinner came a show that helped get everyone excited about the grasslands, and ended off with an up-close encounter with a Prehensile-tailed Porcupine for the kids. There was no petting of course, but the kids got to stand around the handler while she explained why that particular animal looked the way it did.

Very few of the pictures we took actually turned out, but it's no big loss as I'm not a big believer in Zoo pictures anyways. The Zoo is really something you have to go to in order to enjoy, and I'm sure there are much better pictures of animals in their natural habitats floating around in cyberspace then the blurry ones taken from behind the smudgy glass of some sleepy critters cage that you typically get from the Zoo. Tammy just picked up the "Planet Earth" series on DVD last week, and the high definition close-ups of the animals they've compiled are almost as cool as seeing the real thing. I give them two opposable thumbs up.