Saturday Was Zoo Day

Every morning Jackie comes down with a great big smile and says good morning. Yesterday was different. When she woke up she did not do her standard greetings, but instead said "Let's go to the Zoo!" Don and I were a bit shocked by this out of the blue idea. I looked at Don who was already looking at me with a smile. Don responded happily to Jackie and said "Okay".

We left the house at noon. We had to walk to the community center a block down to get to our car that had been there since the night before because they were resurfacing our street. Don decided that it would be easier if we did not drive the SUV. Since the loaner car (my car needed warranty work to fix my recurring bluetooth problem) did not have a navigator, we had to borrow TomTom from the truck.

Mike (Don's son) wanted to come along so we picked him up from his condo at Arlington (near Ballston). When we arrived at Woodley Park National Zoo in DC our first stop was lunch at the Mane Restaurant. I had a half pound burger, eating only the meat (just started low carb diet) which was pretty decent. There were no straws and lids on the drinks for the benefit of the animals.

After lunch we went straight to the Big Cats exhibit - we took pictures of the lions and tigers.

Here's one of the two lions

It was crowded at the Great Apes house. We saw the gorillas who were pretty active. One of the gorillas was throwing itself against the glass window causing quite a reaction from the visitors. The orangutans looked funny with the white blanket over their heads. I never did find out why they had blankets over their heads.

We had a very nice visit at the zoo and the weather was perfect! I would have posted more pictures, but I had some technical difficulties with my uploads. There are couple of nice (not great quality) shots of the Orangs that I want to post at some point ;)

After the zoo, we visited with Mike for a while. We watched previously recorded Wimbledon match of Nadal and Federrer, and afterwards we watched a little bit of baseball. Through the game Don explained some of the rules of baseball. We had pizza for dinner, then after baseball got old Mike asked if he could show me his new game. We watched him play Metal Gear (sneaking game) on his PS3 which I was able to watch. Watching Halo or Gears of War makes me nauseous (motion sickness).