I'm behind...again

I wanted to keep writing about our trip to DC, but seeing as though we've been SO busy...oh, wait, we haven't been busy!!!  Well, sort of, but not the type of busy where there's a lot of pictures or anything.  So I'll continue to write about our trip!

After Virginia we went to the zoo, Chuck took the day off and we spent most of the day together.

This is my stereotypical National Zoo picture.  When Marching Mizzou went to DC for the first GWBush inauguration, my friends Andrea and Kat and I went to the zoo.  We took these pictures.  And whenever my sister came to visit we took this picture.  Here:

So here's me and Aaron!

The pandas!

Aaron enjoying the panda.

I love elephants.

Then they brought out another one so they could feed them (you can see it hanging above them).

Here's Aaron not enjoying the elephants anymore.

This is their little kid area.  But what little kid zoo area doesn't have animals to pet??  He couldn't touch any of the animals.  And then I heard this zoo lady explaining to a 4 year old about the cows "over there", one was a milk cow and the other was the kind that people raise and then kill them and eat them for hamburgers!

The milk cow.

Goats with their own playground!

Seals

Tigers!

Lions!

That's an orangutan.  It's really quite cool, they have a little yard where they can play and then they can climb this tall tower and hang on the wires (you can see them) and get to other towers.  No worries, they can't get down to get to people.  I was bummed that we didn't get to see him climb from one tower to the next.  I never have seen it happen...

He's looking at the orangutans inside


And the family of gorillas outside.  Not sure if you can see but there's a momma with her baby on the treehouse.

A little groundhog that was being very still for me.

Then he decided to pose!

A sloth bear.  I hated that they put those stupid textures on the glass, you can barely see anything.  I guess dumb birds were flying into the panes.  Hey, survival of the fittest!  Isn't that was Darwin and all of his supporters say?!?!  Evolution, baby!


Then we went back to the hotel so Aaron could take a nap and Chuck could do some laundry.  I decided to go to a local coffee shop and spend some time alone while Chuck could do his interview over the phone with the big wig of the radiology department of the army.  It was a long day!