Shannon’s account of drunken pea­cocks, amorous tur­tles and the Mon­key Who Hated Me.
Me and Mike woke up that morn­ing (I can’t remem­ber which day it was now, Sun­day or Mon­day maybe?) and it was all bright and sunny out­side. I stepped out onto Mike’s stair­well and checked the weather. I needed a light jacket and told Mike this (mind you I told him I needed a jacket, not that he nec­es­sar­ily needed one ). I believe we then pro­ceeded to mes­sage Kenny to tell him when to meet us. We met at some stop, and then went off to the Tier­park.

It was so cool because even before we got in, we saw cool swans and ducks under the bridge. The lady sell­ing tick­ets didn’t seem to give a shit that we said we were stu­dents. I won­der if we were 40 and said that if we still could have got­ten in?

There were lots of cool birds there. I got to feed some ducks and stuff. That must be the life, swim around with a bunch of your friends and get fed by dumb touristy peo­ple. I could deal with that. Oh yeah and this was the day Kenny got his hair­cut too. I felt so hon­ored that I could see him when he was chang­ing his hair style.

I don’t remem­ber a lot of the first stuff we saw, but I do remem­ber that it was super warm out, and Mike yelled at me for telling him to bring his coat (which as I pointed out ear­lier, I sim­ply stated that I had intended on bring­ing my own coat ) I remem­ber we saw some cool bird that sat with its legs bended all back­wards and stuff. That was pretty neat. We saw flamin­goes too. I like the fact that birds can be such cool colors.

Then of course the high­light of “Mon­key Boy’s” day. The mon­keys. I made Kenny and Mike pose like the statue of the mon­key out­side the mon­key house. It turned out quite well. Then we went inside a place that was sup­posed to be like Kenny’s home­land, but Kenny pro­ceeded to inform me that mist was not con­stantly sprayed from lit­tle sprayers in walls to main­tain a humid envi­ron­ment and that Malaysia was def­i­nitely not this humid nor­mally. I do believe that if we hadn’t lit­er­ally dragged Mike out of that place, he would have stayed there ALL day.And don’t get me wrong, as much as I love ani­mals and mon­keys and the like, there’s only so long I could be in that humid place.

I liked the fact that it was spring because all the babies were born and look­ing so cute and stuff. There were sooo many dif­fer­ent kinds of mon­keys too. It was pretty neat. There was one that really didn’t like Kenny at all for some rea­son. I don’t know why, he’s a really cool guy.

Then we went out­side and saw more mon­keys, but these were lit­tle play­ful squir­rel mon­keys. They were so cute, and it kicked ass when one of them some­how got across the water and was crawl­ing around on the rail­ing. I guess Mike said that some kid pulled the poor thing’s tail and need­less to say got pretty upset. I per­son­ally got tired of the mon­keys and went to see the giraffes and kan­ga­roos. The Giraffes were def­i­nitely my favorite ani­mal to see that day.

Then we (finally) left the mon­keys and went on to see other ani­mals. We went into another overly humid room with lots of birds, and I guess Mike said he had to help some old woman chase a bird back inside the bird­house. I’m sure that would have been a sight to see. We also saw this crazy pea­cock wan­der­ing around the beer gar­den. He obvi­ously wanted to get wasted. I also saw these two sea tur­tles going at it like rab­bits. (how ironic huh? ) It’s hard to go at it like rab­bits when you are try­ing to have sex while car­ry­ing your house on your back. That poor guy must have been so frus­trated. It also didn’t help that the female tur­tle kept mov­ing around. The poor dude couldn’t get into position.

We went and saw some cool cats, and there was this big black dog, that Kenny at first thought was the pan­ther in the cage he looked at, and had pro­ceeded to get out. Thank­fully that wasn’t the case. I like big kit­ties. We also saw a red panda. There weren’t the “nor­mal” pan­das that I was used to see­ing at the zoo, but I think it was pretty cool. We also saw the COOLEST sea lion.

Ok there were two really cool sea lions. One was a lit­tle one named Molly who did all sorts of neat tricks like jump­ing through hoops, fetch­ing rings and balls and kissed chil­dren and ter­ri­fied babies. Then there was this super huge one, that we don’t know what he was named, but he scared the crap out of this really huge dog, and it was really funny. I’m not good at describ­ing things like this, so I leave that to Kenny and Mike to describe the mas­sive size of this thing. It was so cool.

We also got to see goats and cows and lambs and horses and zebras and ele­phants and sooo many other cool ani­mals. We didn’t get to see the bears though. The zoo peo­ple have this clever way of kick­ing peo­ple out by putting all the ani­mals away. Those clever bas­tards. So by the time we got to the bear exhibit, it was bare. (that’s for all you pun lovers out there ) We also got to see an aard­vark and rhi­nos, and some other really cool stuff that I don’t really know what they were. There weren’t any hip­pos though. That was very sad. OOOh the pen­guins were cool too. Alli­ga­tors and tri­an­gle fish.

I know that I could have gone to a zoo in Amer­ica, but I have no regrets about spend­ing my day there with two really awe­some guys. Maybe they remem­ber more than me, but I’d say this is pretty good con­sid­er­ing how long ago it was. OOOH there was a really cool big long snake. The rep­tile house was really spiffy as well. The only thing I couldn’t bring myself to look at were the spi­ders. I think the Tier­park was def­i­nitely one of my favorite things that I did in Ger­many (with the excep­tion of the last night with good food and run­ning from the law ;P).

Damn now I wish I could come back again. I hate you all because I am insanely jeal­ous of the stuff you are guys doing there, and would give pretty much any­thing to be there right now.