Memorial Day Weekend

On Saturdy of Memorial Day Weekend, Justin and I watched "We Bought a Zoo." It was so inspiring that we decided to go to the Portland Zoo the coming Monday. Overall, it was a good experience. The zoo is layed out nicely and has a lot of great animal exhibits. We were especially excited to see the tigers, bears, and orangutangs. Neither of us had been to the zoo in a very long time. It seems to mostly be attended by small children and their parents.

Justin next to the zebra.

There's a tiger in there. I really like tigers, in fact if I could choose to be an animal, it would probably be this one.

I have this irrational fear of finding a cougar in a tree when I go outside sometimes. (especially when I lived at my parents house and had to take the garbage out in the dark) This was the closest I would like to come to one.

We found this black bear rather entertaining. He is just chilling on the stump.

Wait a second, cows at the zoo? That is exactly what I thought? I was baffled at why the 'Family Farm' is an exhibit at the zoo? If you want to see these things go to the County Fair. (Unfortunately the county we now live in doesn't really have a fair)

The biggest thing that irritated me about this exhibit was the misrepresentation of what the 'family farm' now looks like today. They had breeds of animals that are rarely even seen on the family farm. Pot belly pigs? Usually they are hampshire, duroc or yorkshire, etc. American agriculture has a big job to do in the next hundred years. I felt like this zoo exhibit treats it as a thing of the past. Grrr.... where have I moved to? 

On a lighter note, it didn't rain and we enjoyed spending time together doing something out of the norm. Probably won't return until we have children of our own to show God's many amazing creations, or if someone with children comes to visit.
Justin and Ruth Blazzard