Dear Anne Frank,

We had to be out of our hotel room at 10am to meet the hotel shuttle at the front doors to be carried to the metro. While on the metro, I thought of Arwen as the voice over the intercom says “step back, doors closing.” I remembered that she wrote an answer to a Formspring question that she’d like to be that voice.

So, we got off the metro at the zoo stop and rode an escalator that took 2.5 minutes to go up. Once we got half way, I couldn’t look down. Someone was wanting me to move over so they could get through and I told them to find their way to the center because I my hand and body was NOT leaving the side rail, since I am afraid of heights.

As soon as we got there we followed the signs and went in the direction to the Panda Station. We ate lunch there and it was actually not too expensive for it being in Washington, DC and the zoo. 

After resting a while after eating our food, we went to walk around the zoo for a bit. The most we got to look at in the zoo was a panda eating bamboo, the back end of a zebra, an elephant, a few random birds on the bird trail and flamingo fights of a flock of flamingos.

After walking there and back around, we passed an exhibit that’s being worked on from ground up. It completely looked like they were not projecting it as an exhibition for animals but an area for my #bedclothes, #fajb and Pitchmen group to have one amazing ball pit party. I thought of all of my Twitter friends while there, at the zoo, passing by that area. I would have tweeted that, hadn’t my cell phone completely junked out and died….like it purposely did the entire trip.

The most interesting part about the zoo, for me, was seeing the flamingos. However, my whole childhood has been masked a lie. Why, you ask? I found out that flamingos are not pink – they are actually bright orange. Whoever said they were pink (other than the feet and very back tail feathers) were colored blind and/or seriously deranged. Orange is NOT the new pink!

I must say I have never seen animals carry on like they did. The whole group, at one point, was standing on one leg trying to bite and fight with one another. Also, the song De Animals a-Comin’ was going through my head the entire time of this zoo visit. It was a song that the guys group sang in choir. 

Oh, and to end this note… One funny thing did happen, though, while at the zoo. There was this woman that wore a shirt saying  “You’ll never get lucky with me.” Yes, indeed; you wouldn’t have wanted to. Just.. saying.

Your Friend,
Karen-Maeby