#heartwarming things

[themaraudera]

Hi! I'm new to tumblr and this is the very first blog that I followed. You are very good at what you want to do! Thanks for making me laugh everyday with your text posts!

Hi sweetheart! It is an honor to be the first blog you followed and I am proud to count you as a member of my tumblr family! Wherever you are I send you my love

[lonewolfprincess]

A Very Good Day

So my folks surprised us by taking me, one of my younger brothers, and all the kids they're fostering right now to the zoo. XD YAY!!! We got to see a LOT of the animals today, which is especially good luck since today was ridiculously hot for a June day in Oregon. We usually don't get temperatures like this until a month or so later. I'll provide a list of the animals we got to see after the break. (I'll warn you, it turned out to be a bit longer than I first thought. I almost feel like I'm bragging, but I really, really love my zoo.) And because the foster kids had said the previous day that they had either never seen “The Lion King” or hadn’t seen it in ages, we watched it last night. It’s been my absolute favorite movie since before I can remember. Mom even made cinnamon marshmallow popcorn (note to self: discover recipe and share with fellow tumblrites).

So, yeah, today was a pretty nice Saturday. Like I said, it was crazy hot, the kids were a bit of a handful at times, and I may or may not have cried a few times (I have a few late loved ones tied to those things. Good memories, but still.), but I think this is the best day I’ve had in a long time. Now I can look the Brookfield Expedition in the… screen and say “hey, I had a pretty nice zoo experience this weekend, too.” =)

Wow, you're still here? I applaud your patience. Either that, or you just really love animals. XD Alright, so in more or less this order, we saw:

Black bears Bald eagles A few species of salmon White sturgeons North American river otters (Including Mo, the pup that was born last February. He's already HUGE, almost as big as his parents!) Beavers Ringtails (Not the lemur; these are members of the raccoon family. They kinda look like ferrets or civets.) LOTS of duck species spread across a few exhibits (and some ribbing from my U of O-alumnus dad) A lionhead rabbit in the petting zoo barn (His name was Mufasa, and his fur was pure black and CRAZY soft!) Polar bears Visayan wild pigs and Babirusas (both of which are wild pigs from Asia, and the latter I just looked up in order to get the plural form) Asian elephants (And we got to see Lily, the calf that was born last winter! XD We missed her last time.) Lions Caracals (We actually got to see a zookeeper feed it [not sure if it was Cricket the male or Peggy the female] through a hole in the plexiglass. The way it licked at the hole afterwards was charming.)

Dwarf mongooses Hippos Generuks De Braaza’s monkey Giraffes and Southern ground hornbills (These guys are HUGE! The hornbills, not just the giraffes) African crested porcupines African slender-nosed crocodiles Nile monitor lizards Lesser flamingos (A really recent addition to the aviary right outside the African Rainforest exhibit; even I didn’t know they were gonna be there.)

Allen’s swamp monkeys and Colobus monkeys

Three different species of fruit bats

Southern sea otters

Stellar sea lions

WHEW! Not a bad viewing, if I do say so myself. Thanks for sticking with me. ;)

[scandiknavery]

"UH, THEY'RE CALLED BAGELS."

this show has been making me profoundly happy for the last two days.