Aminals! (aka photo spam)

We went to the zoo on Wednesday! Zoo Atlanta is a really awesome zoo, loads of animals, really helpful staff, and we had a blast! So, here's your photo spam for the week :)

Very cool British guy who told Ellie and Emily about the hornbills Zazu and Gumbi. Thanks to Zazu, I had Lion King songs stuck in my head all day!

Milky Eagle Owl-- he was HUGE!

and really pretty!

Zoo Atlanta has lots of bronze statues around, they're all beautiful!

Keeper Talk at the Elephant pen

Taking blood for the weekly physical

PANDA SLEEP!

PANDA SLEEP! (in tree)

Herow

Komodo Dragon sleeping in the shade

Maclain and Mikinzi taunt the rattler

The rattlers pile up and conspire

The Orangutans were the hit of the day!

This guy was up on the highest point in the habitat playing "Thinking Man" most of the afternoon!

Red Panda

panting in the heat

"Screw you guys, it's too loud, I'm going to my crate."

Sun Bear

This guy saw us taking pictures and started posing

Juveniles playing

Waiting for food

Keeper comes up on top of the building to feed them

The big guy gets first dibs

Willie B, Atlanta's most beloved animal! This statue's dangerous, though-- bronze is such a good conductor that during a freak lightning storm about 10-15 years ago four kids were electrocuted!

The fat one up front was just sitting there staring

Entrance to the Parakeet Cage

They're watching you

She was stripping the vegetation off the branches and munching-- I think elephants are fascinating!

222-- missed it!

Last post was my 222nd post!

We're wrapping up our last week of camp, and boy is it a doozy! Our enrollment is slightly lower than we expected, which is fine because it's less work for me in the office side of things which leaves me with the chance to wrap up some after school stuff that needs to get done. Right now we have almost 120 kids registered for after school, which is amazing! That's up 30 from last year's enrollment, and almost all through word of mouth! There's nothing that can convince me that I'm doing a good job better than that!

Anyway, it'll be kinda crazy for the next couple weeks, so I'll talk to y'all then!

Ciao.

The rest of the time

I didn't take as many pictures as I normally do, we were all still a little worn out this week! But, here are a few from our last couple of days together.

Sarah baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies-- they weren't the prettiest!

"Now Muriel plays piano every Friday at the Hollywood." - "Walkin' in Memphis"

The inside was SO cute!

Jeremy had frog legs!

Which, of course, he had to turn in to a sideshow :)

And his first intentional beet eating since childhood!

PEACH COBBLER!

Glittery cupcakes! So yummy!