back home AGAIN in indiANa, and at the zoo! woohoo!

we spent a day at the zoo, which is the raddest zoo EVER, with erica, coop, pain and becks. when we walked in, we saw that the ocean house was closed, so we didn't get to pet the baby sharks or see the cool fishies, but the rest of the zoo totally made up for it. we saw the walruses first (since the polar bears were sleeping in a secret hiding place). i have never seen a bigger aquatic mammal in person than one of them. it had to at least have been 15ft tall and i won't even hazard a guess at how much it weighed. (you can see him, brutus, in the second picture.) mammoth doesn't even begin to describe him. the other walrus (in the first and second pictures) has had some work done; don't worry, just some caps. he, waldo as i'll call him (although it could be nereus who is famous from animal planet), was enjoying his manhood. so much so, in fact, that he couldn't keep his flippers off himself. and in front of the kiddies. dis-gusting. i was appalled at first, then giggled hysterically. right alongside mor and erica. (thank goodness children are so innocent and unobservant at specific times.) then we got to see the MEERKATS!!! in the prairie house. (yeah yeah, get the giggles at my dorkiness out of your system.) coop liked the snake house, but it kinda weirded me out since the only lights were the ones in the snake tanks. creepy, but cool. the rhinos and elephants smelled like hot poop; there was an emu that had mor in his sights as a snack; and we found out coop would have made one cool mini-horse. (sorry, rob and big: he ain't for sale. yet.)
to sum up, we totally loved our sweaty day at the zoo (my beloved forever-a-5yr old husband more than all of us put together) and getting to spend time with erica and her kids. esp becks, who didn't make a peep the entire time. not even when we tried to feed him to the polar bears!


notice the crowns on ol' waldo the walrus' teef, all thanks to a buddy of matt's at the dental school

the masturbating walrus (left, and aka waldo) and giNORMous friend

obviously i was more excited about seeing flower's extended family than morgan was

mor trying his best to not make a face at how bad the rhinos stink

little does mr emu know that my hubs would have been more than just a "light snack"

coop's 11 hands high, whatever that means in horse language

UNDERNEATH (rad!) the dolphin exhibit

painy and her newly-acquired lizard friend

mor thought this turtle was one of the coolest animals at the zoo, go figure
aaand...


oh no! mor's worst nightmare has become becks' reality!