Zoo @ MindSay

ZOO DAY.
(You may have already seen these on my MySpace.)

I don't remember the names of most of these animals, oh well.



(this one is a sloth bear! :) )
















(note, we were NOT almost there, lol)




























(her name is Lucy!)


These are popular-ish Floridian signs, and Scott is obsessed with them:




Manatees . . .


. . . have belly buttons!




looking wrecked:




It was trying to eat my mom :[












Logan feeding stingrays:


Me feeding stingrays:


Lance feeding stingrays:


This is not a good picture:




Koalas sleep forever :[


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Koala mold!

Tomorrow is $5 admission day at the zoo :]

Wish Magen were going :[

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I've been looking forward to today all week. :)
Mam woke me up at half 7 - I promptly got dressed and ate a Muller crunch corner for breakfast.
We arrived at Ashleigh's at quarter past 8 - her mam was there, being over-enthusiastic about seeing us off.

It took us about 2 hours to get there - and we filled around half of that with the CD Adam burnt for me.
Lmfao, he wrote all kinds of mental shit on it - exactly how he does with brithday and Christmas cards. It amused me. :)

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Ashleigh had brought her blue badge so we could park in a beasty space.
Her photos on her ID cards are just generally hilarious. I'm the new owner of her Connexions card, which I've nicknamed "CHUBBY FACE".
Her blue badge is an even CHUBBIER Chubby Face though. :)
I'd love to see her bloody passport, rofl.

After the admission booths - there was this BIG FUCK OFF HILL before the park entrance.
I was doing the spoon-head-walk to stop Ash from rolling down it.
Mam told me not to let her go - to which Ash responds: "LET ME GO. LET ME GO. I SWEAR TO GOD, LET ME GO."

So I let her go - and she SHOT.
Dad proper panicked, started running after her screaming: "Ashleigh! ASHLEEEEIGH!!!"

I couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes.

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We wandered around the park - taking part in the various feeding events, and taking lots of photos.
In South Lakes Wildlife Park, lemurs, emus and peacocks are allowed to roam around freely.
You can buy bags of food to feed the birds - but apparently, lemurs bite, so you can't feed those.

There was a sign on some of the gates that said:
"WARNING: Please keep your children away from peacocks when they are displaying, as they are potentially dangerous."

- To which mam responds: "YOU BETTER KEEP AWAY FROM ASHLEIGH."
It wasn't even THAT funny - but Ash was pissing herself. Oh, surnames. Surnames that are so easy to mock...


My favourite animals were the bears and tigers.
They have big beasty black bears - but they were being overly lazy; just lounging around on their wooden perches.

They had rhinos and giraffes in together - and we went to the event where this gadge gave out bits of tree branch and all the giraffes ate them from your hand. THEY PROPER DROOL.

They must have about 8 different kinds of apes/monkeys there.
The spider monkeys are amusing - there was a young one in an enclosure that kept licking the glass. Further down, there was one with a beasty scab on its arm, which it was picking and eating.
I don't blame it - SCABS ARE CHEWY.

The gibbons were all cuddling each other, whilst the baboons were always fighting with each other.
I like baboons - they have funny red bums. :)

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When the keepers fed the tigers - they hook pieces of horse meat onto really high vertical wooden poles - making the tigers work for their meals, as they would in the wild.
I loved watching that. I really like tigers. I have so many cuddly tigers and tiger posters in my room.

One thing my mam got me from the gift shop was a 2nd tiger caption photo.
It's of a white tiger pulling a strange face, with the caption: "CHAOS, PANIC, DISASTER. MY WORK HERE IS DONE."

Ashleigh bought herself a copper foil engraving kit - and some random lollipops she said she'd take home for her family. Generous, lmao.

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Mam bought us both hotdogs, giant chocolate cookies and Coke for our lunch.
In the picnic sort-of-area, this keeper gadge did a mini-talk about snakes and boa constrictors. Then he brought one round, and we could stroke it.
I like the way snakes feel.

Dad bought us all ice-creams - I had a Mr. Men Milkie, Ash had a Smarties Push-Up, dad had a Smarties cone and mam had a 99 with a flake.

Once we'd finished these off - we went for a wander to feed some emus.
Venturing to the top of the park, the vulture and macaw enclosure - followed by bats and random reptiles.

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The highlight of the day had to be feeding the lemurs.
As always, the keeper gave us a talk - then they handed round grapes to feed to them.

Ash was sat beside a little blonde boy with a zimmer frame.
After they'd took his and her grapes, they DIVED ON THEM.

Ash had a lemur on her shoulder and one on her wheel - while the lad had several all cligning to his frame.
Highly amusing, it were. :)

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Now I shall post immense amounts of photography... :)



Lazy brown bear. :)



Two giraffes. I believe we fed both of those with the branches. :)



Cuddly. :)



These are so cute. :D



Hungry tiger - after retrieving his meat from the pole.



Mam's camera is fucking awesome! :)

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Ashleigh waiting for hotdogs. :)



Stroking an emu.



Stroking the snake.



Feeding the giraffes.



Lmfao, our hair!
Why yes, it was rather windy in the Lake District today. :)



I attempted to sit on that bear sculpture - but it was too slippery. I just slid straight off it.





Funky African tribal gadge outside the gift shop. :D

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I cuddled up to Ash for most of the journey back.
Then I started to annoy her - tickling her sides, jiggling her tummy and flicking her nose. :)
As I do, lmao.

We dropped Ash off home at around 5 - as she was starting to fall asleep by the look of her.

We called at Burns Road fish shop for our tea.
I had roast chicken and mam and dad had cod and chips.
I ate with them and we watched The Simpsons for an hour, followed by Britain's Got Talent.

My favourite this week was the little girl who did ballet dancing and sang Julie Andrews' song: 'I Could Have Danced All Night.'

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I ended my night with a shower and a few hours on the phone to Shelly. :)
I couldn't have a day without some Shelly. I love her too much to go a day without contacting her.

In no specific order, and with very little merit behind them, here are some of the things that transpired in Room 16 today:

- E took one look at the movie choices we put out for this afternoon, saw 'Follow that Bird' and goes, "not even happening".  HILARIOUS.  We put it out as a joke, since it's one of my fave movies, and we all said, "E is going to have a huge problem with that" because he's so concerned with image.
- ALL THREE OF THEM (e, d, and a) built a zoo together this morning.  Yesterday, A tried to build a zoo, the other 2 wrecked it, screamed at him, and had a full tantrum when he reacted back and threw cubes and hit them.  They worked on it for half an hour, and E and D were very accomodating of his silly stories and strange rules and new characters... <3.
- A spelled the word 'home' 'h-o-m-o' today.  And I very immaturely cracked up about it.  It's hard to explain why; lately, he's been cracking me up a TON without trying to. He spells things out of order, and he makes these adorable faces and...I was already in a silly mood and then Claudia was giving him the test and I was at the table trying to do other work and ... I had to excuse myself.
- I had some SERIOUS teacher voice today.  I am proud of this feat.  A was in the cafeteria, and he was blowing his straw in Chester's face/hair.  I took the straw, and he picked up his empty milk carton and was getting close to him, so I took that.  Then he was leaning towards him again and I picked up his tray and silverware and said, "stand up and walk to the classroom. Now".  And I didn't let him get away with ANYTHING while he tried to justify his actions (PS, he was bother Chester because he had to go to the bathroom, logical).  He started to waste time/act up in the bathroom and again my no-nonsense voice came out and told him to get his butt in gear and to get out.  He did, and we were in the small room filling out a processing sheet, and when he started to whine I just had to LOOK at him, and he stopped, and I told him I wouldn't write another word until I saw an 11 year-old boy, aka someone sitting up not laying down, and he took me seriously and did it.  He's realizing that I mean business.
- D stayed in our room at the beginning of lunch to finish clearing off his desk.  Parker was there too.  I wish I could remember the conversation, but it involved D making fun of Parker having hairy arms, which prompted Parker to roll up his pant-leg to show off Robin Williams' legs which we had a good laugh about (especially because it just STOPS an inch or two above his ankles like he shaves them, but he doesn't - like he wore too tight socks for too long and now....).  So then Parker started to remark that he was going to the local sandwich place to get a few slices of pizza.  The place he was going to makes really good soup, and I was cold (I'm still as cold as I feel when it's 10 degrees out, and it's currently 45), so I said, "Hey, would you pick me up a soup?" (they only have soup of the day, so there's no choice).  I pull money out of my wallet and say thank-you,and D is giving us this ridiculous look.  He says, "you're cheating on your girlfriend".  And Parker asked how, and his response was, "You're supposed to buy food for your GIRLFRIEND" and he said, "or if my friend asks me to".  Then he says, "you two are acting like you're married".  So we showed him that sometimes married life looks like a lot of angry yelling.  It was all ridiculous.  I don't think asking him to buy me soup (with my money!) is a couple-y thing to do.  If I had unzipped my hoodie a bit while rubbing his bicep and biting my lip and said, "buy me soup"...maybe a case.  But it was DAMN platonic.
- E rocked his spelling test today.