Weekend Part one

 I needed a respite from the firehose of BS currently being spewed almost hourly by Felon47

On Saturday morning we took advantage of our LAZOO membership and got in an early morning with the animals.  They have a new "Children's Zoo, where you can see but no longer pet, the goats.  The sign says they are "enjoying their Golden years" ( read they weren't putting up with kids anymore, I suppose)  It looks like a nice addition, although since it was early morning, not all the animals were up and about.  

The meercats were super active  as were the flamingos.  We had a delightful conversation with the Zoo docent there, Rissa.  She pointed out the black underside of the flamingo wings- usually they are NOT moving much, but it was feeding time and they were MOVING.  

I love the giraffes and the baby was posing so I got a lot of pictures, I will post the best of them on my FB page.  We saw the elephant getting their pedicure 

The baboons were going NUYTS. It looked like one of them had broken a rule and the rest of them were screaming and chasing him.  He went up a palm tree and continued to SCREAM at the rest of the troop ( Fun fact I had heard that t a group of baboons is called a Congress and I looked it up to be sure.  It is not and I am sad about that)  He leapt off the tree and onto another baboon.  I anticipated blood, but thankfully there was none.  A Zoo worked said they do that all the time, he said they were really "rumbling" last week.

I am thankful the zoo has electric scooters as Chris threw his back out on Friday night.  He felt well enough to go to the Zoo, but by the time we got home it was much worse, so the House Concert we had planned to go to was out for him.

More on that in my next blog, hopefully later today- my car, the one the mechanic calls "the Ferrari" had an electrical problem.  I hope they find it and fix it.