Brookfield Zoo

I think that today’s adventurers officially take the cake for one of my craziest out of school trips with two crazy friends. And I’m in a chatty mood today, so I think that I’ll bore you all with the details.

9-ish Kyle arrives. Nicole arrives. We pack into Kyle’s dad’s truck that only holds three people. [Haha, Nicole gets the middle for the ride there.] Before even reaching Interstate 55, even before Route 30, Kyle offers to take us over the “bump”. Nicole and I simultaneously ask “What’s the bump?” as Kyle turns down a street off of Essington. About a quarter of the way down the road, he suggest that we should “hang on”, however, at that point, all three of us are flung into mid-air, hitting our heads on the ceiling of the truck. Haha, it really was a great bump :-D I’ll have to show you all where it is sometime.
9:10-9:35-ish The rest of the ride to the zoo. Haha, Kyle is a pretty crazy driver, but at least he’s entertaining about it. We listened to some crazy music. Did some crazy dancing. There was also this crazy radio show on some station that involved a person trying to place a bet on the Harlem Globetrotters and some other team… [Sisters, this was clearly not a real phone call, just in case you thought it was. It was however, pretty damn funny.]
9:45-ish We arrive at the zoo! It was actually more like 9:35 when we got there, but… You know, what can I say? We made good time. So we sat in the truck for a bit and just tell our random teenage life stories.
10-ish to 3-ish That’s a pretty decent time at the zoo, isn’t it? But I think that we saw everything that was open. We headed over to the wolves first, and we went into this dark room over there [no roaming hands!] that actually turned out to be pretty cool. [There’s a black light that goes on at the end, and Kyle and I were wearing white, so we glowed, and I’m always entertained by that.] We also went on this little path thing, but the exit at the end we walked to was closed, however, we were not going to walk all the way back, so we just jumped the little fence and continued on. The lion was sleeping when we visited him. A little girl came up, asking is he was awake yet, and we sadly answered no. She did, however, get very excited that there was a chipmunk in the lion’s den, and preceded to scream about it several times. This same little girl was also going downtown after her and her family were done on their zoo expedition. [Yes, three seventeen year-olds carried on a lengthy conversation with a girl around the age of six.] Then in the reptile house [at least I think that’s what it was], we checked out some of the small turtles. In the first window we looked in, there was definitely a turtle trying to get it on with another turtle, however, the female did not want to give in. This little competition between the turtles went on for a long time, and we made a bet with Kyle that when he came back to the zoo Friday [yes, he is going to the zoo again this Friday] that the turtles will still be at it. We got to feed the giraffes, too. [Okay, not really, but a giraffe did eat this stick that Kyle flung at the end of the rope.] We also decided that there was an elephant that was severely depressed, because it had it’s head against the wall and we decided that at any moment he would slam his head against it and kill itself. We hung out with the dolphins for quite a bit too near the end of our trip [underground, of course. It was quite warm, so we all just kinda laid on the steps and we probably could have taken a nap.] Again, I stress the fact that we probably went into every house that was open, and spent some pretty killer time in there. It was a good time, just going out and being random. There was also a significant puddle war going on between our walks to the houses. There were a TON of puddles from the rain we had, and we were all splashing each other. While I initiated this game, I must admit that Kyle was the winner for one splash that completely doused Nicole… Kinda sad I didn’t win that one. However, after that killer splash, we kept the splashing to a minimum and we were pretty dry by the time we left. They’re also building a carousel at the zoo… It’s going to be freakin’ GINORMOUS!!! It’s opening this summer, so Nicole, Kyle, and I all decide that we’ll come back so that we can ride on it :-D There was also some gift shopping going on, some picture taking… and yeah…. Good times.
3:15-ish to 3:45-ish Car ride back into town. [I get the middle this time.] Haha, more fun times. We decided that we were going to stop for food somewhere, but Nicole and I didn’t care where we stopped, and Kyle refused to pick somewhere….
4-ish to 4:45-ish We eventually just swung into Taco Bell. [Yeah, that’s right, the girl that RARELY eats at Taco Bell ate at Taco Bell today! Clearly, it wasn’t much of a swing either, because we ended up sitting and talking for a while, but still.] More stories and fun times.
5ish Kyle drops Nicole off. Kyle drops me off. Kyle heads home.

And that was pretty much my crazy day!
So what was the point in telling you all of that? Actually, there was none. But I had a ton of fun, and just wanted you to know that :-D