Day 18 (In the style of Erin)

(This was meant to be posted yesterday, but Blogger was down, so you get two posts today.)

The Omaha zoo is huge. Like, really huge. And so Erin managed to convince her family to go back again today so she could see the rest of it.

It was an eventful day.
Erin made friends

Enemies

And even learned the secret to enlightenment.

AND she saw a fish that was THIS BIG!

No, seriously, you guys!

For the first part, the day was pretty calm, and everybody maintained a sense of dignity and composure. Until they entered the jungle dome…

With the jungle growing wild all around them and the monkeys swinging through the trees overhead, the family quickly descended the evolutionary scale…

And returned to the ways of their primitive ancestors.

Order was eventually restored, however, and the family made their way to the aquarium, where they chilled with the sharks and the jellyfish and other aquatic beasts.

Pictured below: Your father

That's right. You.

 Interest in the aquarium waned rather quickly though, because, as Erin so eloquently put it "fish are gay."

Anyway, for her dear Grosland, Erin chased down an ostrich for a good twenty minutes…

"Man, what even IS this thing?!"

And that was it for the zoo. There WAS a bug dome with butterflies, but there were also very large free-roaming spiders in the same enclosure. Erin knew of this and threw an almighty fit to keep the family from taking a trip through that particular area.

And so everybody went home, and then Erin spent most of the evening with two thirteen-year-olds, and she felt very old.