Vacation Thursday- Black Pines

So after the lovely wildflower walk, and before the food coma from my brilliant idea ("Let's go to Red Lobster, but don't order the same thing we always get") there was a jaunt to Black Pines...

Cody the chimp, sadly missed..

They have a new program to try to keep the animal disturbance down- make one person from each party who's been there before an "ambassador", helping to remind others to obey the rules.  I spent a bit of our beginning  scolding Laurie for leaning on "keep off" signs and making squirrel noises to monkees.

"Yeah. I'm not paying attention to her, anyways.  You, either."

I so want a Patagonian Cavy for a pet.  Doubt the complex would approve it... or my old butt could keep up...

Lazy day... baby you'n'me, and the honeybees...

God...what did I drink last night?

Hey... that's a funny looking lion...

And those don't look like "male alligator"...

"They aren't, you idiot..."

"I'm the male alligator, you simpleton..."

This guy here actually made New Haven's mayor ban live animals as New Haven Days prizes..

From the radio commercial:"This is about the worst boa in America, the one who posts on the other job sites looking for anyone with a pulse, Let's call him Dave..."

"Heh, that was pretty funny for a simpleton!"

Laurie poses with Ft Wayne Mayor Tom Henry...

I read his sign.  "Greater Rhea".  I said, "Better than being Dia-Rhea."  He made kind of a loud moo at me and walked away.

Oh, got to let you in on the one thing I didn't photograph, the white Cockatiel.  We were having a nice conversation- mostly "hello, hey baby" and the like.  Then I said "Whatzup?"  He screamed so loud I thought I was going to get fired from being an ambassador...  I think he called me an ass once, too...