The Zoo and Wall-E

We went to the Minnesota Zoo today and had a great time, the weather was perfect and it was nice to get a lot of walking in. It was a nice zoo, some highlights were the tapir, the close up brown bears entertaining us and themselves by trying to step on the fish swimming at their feet, watching a cow get milked, and watching the sun bear discover honey spots all around its enclosure.

This is what happens when you open a wide mouth Nalgene containing a liter of water, set it on the car seat next to you, then space out.



Aaron and the wild boars


Ok, Bald Eagles are HUGE, like really huge. We're talking a 7 foot wing span, and over 3 feet tall.


This is the bear that kept trying to stomp on the fish, it was totally ridiculous in that deep of water.


This is Godiva, a Brown Swiss cow. She is beautiful and if I ever have cows, I will get this breed.



After the zoo we went to see Wall-E. Loved it loved it loved it!





We had the place to ourselves, it was great!


By the way, Amber, we walked home from downtown yesterday and stumbled upon this place, the Textile Center. It made me want to live here! They have all sorts of cool classes, a dye room where you can make a mess someplace other than your own house, a big library, homemade and home dyed textiles for sale, and what a great place to meet people and have them show you how to do new things. It was really nice and big, and I hope to be able to take a class there next time I'm in town. They had recently had a trunk show with shibori art, there was a woman there that shiboris felted wool! I hope Eugene has something like this!