I had the chance to get away from St. George for a weekend to Boise Idaho to see Kimmie.
She is doing fantastic and still loves her awesome job at the law firm there. I took Hera all by myself on the airplane. I usually like the comfort of having Jake along with me and he carries her which is huge for me because she can get heavy when you’re hauling her down the endless terminals of the airport. I actually had a moment of weakness where I understood those ladies who took their dog around in a stroller – do no panic… I won’t be doing that EVER. The only challenge was trying to fit in the bathroom stall, with her, my luggage and then she jumped out of her carrier and so in this little bathroom stall I was trying to get her back in. I’m sure my neighbors were a little confused and hopefully understood I had my dog with me lol awkward!
Kim’s work is sponsoring the Giraffe exhibit at the Zoo so we took off early Saturday morning to the Boise Zoo. Now you wouldn’t think that Boise has a good zoo but they really have a great one. We reserved tickets to have breakfast with the lions… no not be the lions breakfast ;) they set out this great buffet breakfast and once you got into your meal a little they released the lions into their area. It was amazing to watch. They spread cinnamon and a few other herbs close to the window to entice them and they couldn’t get enough of it. They would rub their face all over it and roll in it. It was great.
We then headed over to the Giraffe exhibit where we got to feed them.
Our little viistor during our breakfast...
I don’t know what treat I was expecting but they gave us roman lettuce… I just thought they would give us something a little bit more than lettuce but the giraffe loved it lol. So my pictures of this is funny because from my view I thought I was really close to this guy. He was looking down on me and taking up my food and Kim kept telling me to get closer and I wouldn’t because that honestly seemed so close to me! Now I look at the pictures and thought what the heck perception was I having that day lol.
Do I need to explain why i took a picture of this -- i laughed so hard.
We then went around to the other animals and saw the Snow Leopard that every time I went to film him going NUTS… like jumping on the side of the wall and flipping backwards nuts. I would raise the camera and press record and like he was on queue he would collapse on the ground and act like he was just sleeping. He did it to me 3 times and finally and gave up trying to catch him in the act.
We then found ourselves in the same spot that the last time Kim and I came to the zoo this annoying lady was eaves dropping on our conversation. I came up to the exhibit and yelled back to Kimmie “check out the turtle!” this lady got in such a huff and corrected me “its NOT a turtle… it’s a tortoise” ohhhh okay, I don’t remember inviting you to this conversation but thanks for the info. So there we were reminiscing on that experience when I look over and see this whole display of nasty cockroaches. Kim turns her head to look and instantly is disgusted because who wants to see those at the zoo and makes one of her classic Kim remarks that I love. This girl comes up to us and corrects us “these are NOT bad cockroaches these are cockroaches you can set in your hand and they hiss… so they aren’t bad”. We just look at her and don’t know what to say. We made the decision to avoid that spot in the future of Idaho Zoo trips because all the crazy people seem to populate there.
check this brave lady out... brave to go into the Australian porcupine habitat to clean. she ended up defending herself with the broom:
This goat was awesome! This kid was pestering him and yelling at him for no reason and then he sticks his head in its area and decides he wants to pet him... BAM... the goat head buts him right in the head!
talk to the hand monkey...
other fun animals:
Once we were done with the zoo we did a little shopping and then went back home to have some of Kim’s yummy garlic chicken she makes. The puppies all behaved themselves. We had a little bit of a war between them over toys. Hera was a little bored so I pulled one of her horse hoofs to chew on – yes dogs chew on horse hoofs. You actually can buy them at the store for a lot of money but we just collect the clippings after the ferrier comes out to clip our horses hoofs and whala… instant chew toy. So I pull it out for Hera to play with and after a little while I put it away for later in get bag in my room. I’m chilling on the couch when Kim walks by and says “oh Bronte stole Hera’s chew toy?” and I told her no I just put it away. Well the little culprit Bronte went into the bedroom and into my bag and pulled out the chew toy. She was chewing away as fast as she could and Cooper was standing guard. Well what goes around comes around I guess because Hera goes over to Kims toy bin for the dogs and pulls out a huge bone for her to chew on. So that started it… fight for the toys. Her dogs would get distracted and she would go steal a there toys and then my dog would be distracted and they would come and steal hers. Then Cooper would get furious when he would see Hera having fun with one of his toys. It ended in a full on bark argument but they made up and got along in the end.
Thanks Kim for a great time!
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