Zoo Date Night!

David and I decided to go to the zoo yesterday...which was officially labeled "ZOO DATE NIGHT!" Getting there was a bit of a struggle, mostly because I forgot that it was Shakespeare in the Park that night and parking was a nightmare. I don't deal well with driving around aimlessly.

Fridays are Jungle Boogie at the Zoo, where bands come in and play for free...but we first had to go see the tigers. Apparently, even if it weren't for Mizzou, David would still think of them as the Kings of the Jungle. No lions for David!

It's a tiger.

It's David looking at a tiger. Awesome.

The lady who took this picture for us was very very excited that the Rhino cooperated.

Good job, Rhino.

I have a thing about taking pictures of animal butts... but it's far more mature than the kids near us who were screaming, "HIPPO! HIPPO BUTT!"

"That rhino is so good looking that I have to frown."

David and I actually had a long debate about this monkey and whether he was sitting in a pile of poop that had a pudding-like skin on it, or if his butt was weird.

Think it was a weird butt.

Right before this picture I was dancing around singing, "I hate every ape I see, from Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee." That's my hatin' face.

I think Smarty Pants finally made a monkey out of David. Yes, they finally made a monkey out of David.

I love these two pictures. In the first, one, David's trying to look like a bad-ass....something that's difficult when you're 28 year old man who is excited to go to the zoo on a Friday night. In between the pictures, some random person complimented my dress...that made him laugh because he had lectured me on how it wasn't "zoo appropriate" before we left.

I showed him!

Because he was wrong about the appropriateness of my zoo attire, he gets to go live with his kind.

Yep, the Somali Wild Ass... kindred spirits.

Again, another attempt to look tough at a zoo. Did he pull it off?

I don't care who you are, giraffes are freaky.

So are ostriches. They want to eat your face. You can see it in their eyes.

Up next to the Hippo pool (where the kids were screaming HIPPO! HIPPO BUTT!)

MWUAH! David loves the hippo.

I think this hippo bears a striking resemblance to someone else I know...

Wait, that's not the Hippo's butt!

And then I found a giant cockroach. Lovely.

After getting tired of the animals, we wandered back over to see the band. We were blessed with a creepy lady in a ballerina costume.

Of course, not everyone at the zoo was as interested in the animals/crazy dancing ladies as us....