Two With the Wild...

As many people know, I am not the least bit an animal/pet person...  I blame my mother and father:)  Or the one brother that was allergic to pet hair.  As I have said before, we did have one dog growing up; Teagan...  He passed when we were on vacation by inhaling a large amount of snail bait in the flower beds...  Poor little guy.

That was the extent of my pet days... 

Not only am I allergic as all get out to felines, I am scared to death of cats.  Sneaky, snotty, hissing, scratching, shedding nasty fur...and the list goes on!  If you are a cat lover - I am sorry....

BUT - I love exotic animals!  I have been wanting to go to the New Orleans Zoo ever since we arrived here in July.  Now- I have no idea if it is a good zoo or not, but I love a zoo.

Here was our zoo conversation a couple months ago:

Me: "Hey Babe - let's go to the zoo this Saturday!"

B: "What? Why?  You do realize that football is on..."

Me: "Because it will be fun..  Something different! - Yes, but football will be on Sunday too."

B: "Um no - And we don't even have kids."

Me: "Oh, I was unaware that you had to have kids to go to the zoo? Interesting.  Before I met you, I went on a date once to the Dallas zoo and it was sooo much fun!"

B: "It looks like that relationship worked out well."

Me:  Sigh.....

Ok - I gave up!  No more talking about the DARN zoo.

But this weekend - He surprised me.  The plans were to head to the city to take a Christmas Carriage ride through the Quarter, but the rain ruined those plans....  BUT little did I know what Plan B was; another place other than the zoo that I have been wanting to visit.

The Global Wildlife Center.  I.was.ecstatic to say the least....

(Obviously there wasn't a football game on Saturday morning.)

 

  

I think his name was "Edgar"!  Beautiful bird.

The kangaroos were hilarious.  Straight chilling...  They were the only enclosed animals.  The guide said this was because the other animals pick on them.  The llamas were gorgeous.

Well hello there!  The deer were not SHY at all.

The zebra were extremely MEAN and hungry...  She told us NOT to feed them because they could bite.  But.....

Brad is all about breaking a rule.

Pucker up!

The llamas were gorgeous animals...  I mean you should have seen their eyelashes.  JEALOUS of those suckers.  And some of us (Lorena included) pay for our three month supply of Latisse and OURS aren't half that long.  Not.fair.at.all......

The giraffes were not feeling it Saturday.  They kept their distance and just stared at the 40+ people in the wagon that kept shaking the feed cups.  I can only imagine what they were thinking.

And last but least, the cows....  Little did anyone know that these gems were a daily sight growing up in a small, Texas cow town.  I mean we were the Whitefaces and the Lady Whitefaces.  So yes, we were cows.  Felt right at home with this fellow.

What a fun day with this guy!  We, or I enjoyed it.  He didn't miss any FOOTBALL and we didn't even have to kidnap a child to take with us....

On the road tomorrow to San Antonio and then on to Dallas.  Cannot wait to see family and friends.  Loving this time of year...

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Love

~H