The Zoo was a blast! Well, yesterday marked a very important day... I met Eileen's daughter! She is great.. we all met at the Zoo at 1:00. It was a little chilly, but as we zipped around from one exhibit to the next, you did not really notice the coldness anymore... what a great kid! Very-very smart... and I think she had a great time. Her favorite exhibit was the Tigers... I liked the Meerkat's and the Orangutan... the Meerkat's were so cute.. they would huddle together in a group and all would be watching the sky, as if on the lookout for a hawk or something. Then one would actually scurry right up front to where we were and stand up an look right at us! Too cute for words. The Orangutan was playing with a white sheet, or maybe it was a pillowcase.. it would keep putting it over its head and doing funny things with it. The Elephants were cool as well... we got to see a really cuty baby elephant... and we got to see them feed apples to them... Oh! We also got to meet an Alpaca! Like "Tina" in Napoleon Dynamite? It came over to me and put it's snout right on my arm. The only bummer was that Eileen's camera slipped and hit the ground and got knocked out of whack. The little button that should rewind the film would not work; so I am hoping the shock just knocked the film off of it's track and that it will be an easy fix... it appears to look OK on the outside, no cracks or dents, so I am really hoping that it will be alright. Ever since I was a kid I always wanted one of those dinosaur-head toys where the head is on the end of a long plastic stick and there is a trigger that you press to make the mouth open and shut and they had them at the gift shop.. so I had to get one. Eileen's daughter got a Tiger head... I got Eileen a rain-stick and also got a Meerkat stuffed toy for the young one. The gift shop was great... it has lots of cool things.. and very reasonably priced. The Merry-go-round was a big hit as well.. all around it was a fun time! Afterwards we went to eat at Texas Land and Cattle which was grrrrrreaaaaat! [said in a Tony the Tiger voice] I really had a great time, and it was so nice to meet such a great kid! But I do want to go back to the zoo really bad now... maybe we can go again in a couple of months.. some animals were not out because it was too cold; and we didn't get to ride the train, so right there are a couple good reasons to go back. Plus we might be able to go to the museum as well... I have not been there in a loooooong time and I bet that would be great too. And Nasa! I bet that would be a fun place to go as well...