W went to the reptile house, and then somebody got a rubber snake. See how he's sticking his tongue out? (The Widge, not the snake)
Although its somewhat hard to tell, this is a bear statue The Widge is explaining that the baby bear rides on the mommy bear's back, and, further, that the baby ear has a nose, which the Widge is helpfully pointing out. Many animals have funny looking noses, but most of them do have identifiable proboscises, unlike ears, which many creatures appear not to have. Locating the nose, therefore, is a fun and not overly stressful occupation Try it at your local zoo.
Bamboo has a funny name, plus we saw some gorillas eating it. To round things out, its growing all around the zoo. Hooray for bamboo!
See, this bear has obvious ears. Bears are great, they actually look very much like your garden variety local hound, in that they have an elongated nose, obvious ears, fur, teeth, and a tail. Having a garden-variety hound around the house to serve as a reference is good preparation for zoo-going, and even at my advanced age I tend to rate animals in their relative level of hound-like-ness The Komodo Dragon, for example, is very houndlike at rest: still, sluggish, droopy. Apparently in a frenzy, however the two are vastly different: the dragon will kill you, whereas the hound will whine repeatedly until you feed it.
We did see other animals: birds, small mammals, elephants, etc. If the Fork ever publishes his photo blog, he has photos of us viewing other creatures, as well as, apparently, a photo of me taking the bamboo photo, in case you should want to see such a thing. At any rate, the Widge had such a good time, he actually reached a point where he was no longer capable of viewing animals, and sat calmly in his stroller until he fell asleep. With, you'll note, his beloved rubber snake. The snake later had to sit with him at the dinner table, and was even offered bites of dinner. I'm pleased to report that this specific species seems to enjoy he Hamburger Helper, and so will hopefully not be gobbling birds (we have a yard full of birds, and Grandma would be sad to lose them to a rubber predator). so apparently, in spite of the total lack of cannon, it was a good day to be a little boy.
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I have noticed that you as well are experiencing the occasional stickyness of the "b" key, I too have experienced this foe
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