Revenge is Mine : Exploring part I

Hello! It's been so very long since I've posted anything. Usually in the past I've said this after not blogging for 2 weeks, but now it's been 2 days shy of 3 months since I've last written anything... oops. I guess life gets in the way a lot of the time.

Well honestly nothing eventful has happened in our lives. I'm not pregnant, we haven't graduated and won't for a while, and my sister isn't home from her mission yet. Not having anything exciting to write about also contributes to me not blogging. But that all changed when Ky and I took a trip on Friday to... THE HOGLE ZOO!! This is Salt Lake's zoo and it was so much fun. I had been getting restless for a while because I only ever go to 5 places:

1. School, on BYU campus.
2. Work, on BYU campus.
3. Home, 3 minutes away from BYU campus.
4. Church, at the foot of Wymount and only 2 minutes away from BYU campus.
5. Macey's grocery store, about five blocks west of BYU campus.

Pretty much we like to keep it simple and stay within a 1 mile radius from campus. It's our safe zone apparently. So on Friday we braced ourselves for an adventure into the great beyond.

We began our day with breakfast at the Awful Waffle. Yeah, that's the actual name of the restaurant. Despite its name, the waffles were DELICIOUS. I regret to inform you that I did not take a picture of them. But we both got the same vanilla based waffle with nutella, strawberries, bananas, delicious sugary sweet syrup, and lots of whipped cream.

Then we hit the road and made our way to the Hogle Zoo! They gave us a map of the zoo (which Ky used as a route so we could "get our money's worth and see every animal in the zoo") and we started with the primates. Enjoy the montage of animal pictures with an occasional caption:

This is a Colobus monkey, not a skunk. Don't worry, it fooled me too.

This is by far our favorite picture of the day. This is the adult male orangutan. He's a handsome fellow.

If Ky eats all of his fruits and vegetables, he might grow up to be as big as the male orangutan.

The elephants' watering hole.

These two little kids were talking to the rhino and saying "hey there little guy!" in the same voice that I'm sure their mom uses to talk to them/their baby sibling. It was so adorable. Especially because this rhino is anything but "little".

This is a Jedi lemur. Really though, I'm pretty sure that's his scientific name.

Our presence is recognized. WAY TO BE OREGON.

The seals and sea lions were near impossible to capture on camera. These two seals were "hugging" each other and fighting almost the entire time we were looking at them. The throngs of children made it difficult to get a good view so we quickly moved on.

One bear resting on his sister or her brother. I can't really tell what gender they are soooo yeah.

This is called a Palas cat, but I'm pretty sure this is the wild ancestor of grumpy cat.

Sloth! I made sure to take lots of pictures for my friend Kristin - a fellow sloth fan.

These are called Tamarin monkeys. What's interesting about them is that the male is the primary care giver. He only gives his young to his mate when they need to be fed, then he takes them back.

This is called a Kinkajou, and he (or she) was by far the ugliest animal we saw all day.

Apparently monkeys love Fisher Price toys as much as babies do.

We found Timon, but no Pumbaa.

This is called a Sand cat. I need one as a pet.

This is the Chuckwalla lizard. In its description, it says "Males will do 'push-ups' to attract a prospective mate, or to assert dominance over an intruding male." Wow, who knew men and lizards had so much in common.

Ok, so you know when you go to the zoo as a kid, and you press your face up against the glass at every new animal? Then you reason with yourself that as an adult you should probably step back and let the kids crowd the animals and you'll just take pictures from afar. Nope, not Ky. As you can clearly see from the picture, he wanted to be front and center, looking at all of the animals too. He's just a big kid at heart.