With Ludwig the penguin...December 26th… the day after Christmas… a day off for the Lovely T and I as well as the lovely daughter…
We need an activity… a trip… (With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)
Someone told me It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it… I do believe it's true. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.
(So… Paul Simon (with Art Garfunkel) claims it’s… )
It's a light and tumble journey, From the East Side to the park; Just a fine and fancy ramble
To the zoo.
For us it’s a short ride on the freeway, with lots of folks not used to the freeway… not used to driving apparently… uncrowned slow traffic… the worst kind… but the zoo… the zoo… an oasis… I took a camera… We had a wonderful time…
Back to Paul and Art…
But you can take a crosstown bus, If it's raining or it's cold, And the animals will love it
If you do., If you do, now.
We have already established we didn’t take the bus… not that we are against public transportation… but today, with three of us, a car was a better idea… It wasn’t raining, It wasn’t really cold… mid 50’s or so… But I think the animals appreciated us coming for a visit anyway… Especially Ludwig the penguin… Steph and Ludwig have an ongoing relationship.
We are members of the Zoo… Steph is both a member and a volunteer (hence the relationship with Ludwig…). We get in free… we had a coupon for free parking… we had tickets for the carousel…
Something tells me, It's all happening at the zoo…. I do believe it, o believe it's true. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.
(Paul, Art, you are repeating yourself…)
The monkeys stand for honesty, Giraffes are insincere, And the elephants are kindly but
They're dumb. Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages, And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.
Based on my observations, monkeys stand for nothing… Giraffes seem sincere, at least in my experience… Sadly our zoo doesn’t have Elephants, so no judgment can be made, We didn’t visit the orangutans and I have met several zookeepers, and I can say with conviction none were drunk
Paul and Art continue discussing Zebras, Antelopes, Pigeons, Hamsters and such… We continued. visiting lions, tigers and bears… seals and anteaters… koalas and kangaroos and reindeer…
We visited the children’s zoo… We rode the carousel…
We left, had a late lunch at the Half Moon Bay Brewery in Princeton… It was a good day…
I have posted a set of 12 photos, taken at the Zoo… the challenge… no animal pictures… (Animal pictures were taken… just not posted to the album… except for the photo of Ludwig, above, Steph's favorite...) the album at https://picasaweb.google.com/108652524348276372534/SFZoo12Photos#
By the way... it was about 34 years ago that the Lovely Tina and I had our first date... visiting the San Francisco Zoo...
Randy
And on our first 'official' date it WAS raining. :-)
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