Ah! I haven’t posted since July June 8th?! *smacks herself* Well, I’ve been busy I suppose. :hmm:

Colin and I just got back from our sort of mini-vacation a couple of hours ago. We went to Louisville on Thursday and went shopping (yay!). Friday we went to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. Today, we finished our trip off with a trip to the Louisville Zoo. So, what this means is… I have pictures to share!

Six Flags was pretty fun. When we got there we pretty much headed for the water park and got a locker to dump our stuff in. Then we went on a couple of roller coasters. It was weird because on those two roller coasters, there were only two other people on it with us. It wasn’t very busy for some reason. We had lunch at the water park and then jumped in the wave pool for a little bit. The most exciting thing we did at the water park was float along that lazy river thing twice in a row. Adventurous of us, huh? We did a lot of walking, but that’s not even really worth mentioning.

It was a hot day. We pretty much didn’t really have to wait in line for any of the rides we went on. I think the rides we waited for the longest were the Breakdance or something, and oh man. :stunned: I swear it felt like I was in a washing machine. I was jerked around.

It was pretty rough. We went on the big ferris wheel appropriately named “The Giant Wheel.” We also went on a ride called Rainbow. It was like this ride Holiday World used to have called The Banshee. The very last ride we went on was The Penguin’s Blizzard something or other. It’s a rapid ride, so we were expecting to get wet of course. When we got up to the front of the ride to get on, our raft was already full of about 5 inches of water. Bad sign. That ride was ridiculous! We got totally soaked! Yes, it was a hot day, but this was overkill. After the ride was over, it wasn’t like, “Oh! I got wet! Feels good! Fun!.” It was like, “Oh my lord. I am soaked. I need dry panties. I am miserable.” We actually went and got our stuff from the locker and left after that.

I’ve never taken so many pictures at a zoo before. I guess because every other time I have gone, I was only using a disposable camera. It’s not as easy to take good photographs with a disposable. You can’t check and see how the pictures turn out right away. I love my camera. I pretty much got a picture of every animal. There were lots of random snakes I didn’t take pictures of. Yuck.

I’ve seen gorillas at zoos tons of times. They’re always been some distance away though, like up on a hill or something. We went in this one building, and they had some gorillas that you could see through the glass. There was a male silverback gorilla just standing right there in front of the glass. He was HUGE! Like, oh my gosh. I’d be scared if I ever ran into one of those guys and there wasn’t any glass between us. He started showing off too. It was cool.

I got lots of good pictures. (I’m posting more on my Flickr account soon.) Several of the animals had babies. There was a baby hippo, baby elephant, and…more babies that I can’t remember! So many animals! I tried to pick some really good ones to post in this entry. Maybe it will inspire you to go check out all of my pictures (THEY’RE UP! Click here for more zoo photos!).

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