Go through the concrete zoo to get to the real one.

I went to the zoo with my son and in-laws yesterday. It brought great joy into my heart to watch my son dressed in his Halloween costume (a cow, with a tail!) watching the animals and making baby goo sounds at them as though he was trying to communicate just what he thought about them.

But I think I learned more about love by watching two little baboons yesterday than anyone else could've ever thought you would. We stood there for a good ten minutes just watching them. There was the puny baboon that was causing havoc, of course, and thus got slapped around by an older and higher up baboon. Yet, there were these two baboons that would go apart for a few minutes then find each other again, and sit facing each other, one's head on the other. They were the same size, and they always came back to each other. And they would wrap their little arms/legs around each other and sit there with their heads together. It was beautiful. I was in awe of those two baboons. They were just too cute and they made me all tingly inside.

My son was amazed by the lions, who were making small roars yesterday and he would go "Oooo" every single time the male did it. I think he was trying to talk to it.

The giraffes were walking back and forth and he was following them with his head looking up at them like "Woah, mom, those are tall guys!" And they moved their legs out so far when they went to eat. (When we get the pictures developed, I'll scan them and put them on here.) But it was a fun day.

We went to the dolphin show and it made me want to go to college to be a zoologist/marine biologist just so I could work with them. I have always loved dolphins and the wild animals. I think I have the wild and free nature of an animal and that brings a sort of kinship with them and I can sit and look at animals for a long time and just feel peaceful. There's something therapeutic about animals.

Especially horses. I was once told that a horse was my spirit animal once. I have to agree, I do feel a connection to horses. Even the wildest horse will approach me in a field if I'm sitting there. (It's been done before, so don't think I'm not just saying it-it REALLY happened.) The horse would let me touch it and guide it around with my hand under it's jaw bone. If you ever saw me with a horse, you'd see what I am talking about. It's my plan to go to college and get a CAREER so I can get a little land, build a house, and get some horses. I want to do that because it's just something else I've always dreamed.

But anyways, the zoo was fun. I loved it, seeing as how the last time I was there was when I was in the first grade...yeah, I know...

But on the way back we drove through the Hispanic outskirts of Indy and there was a Steak N' Shake that had a HORRIBLE misspelling on the sign. THEYRE BACK HALOWEEN SHAKES (I told them of their error and HOPEFULLY they fixed it...and added an apostrophe to the contraction for "they are".

Until next time,
all my love.