We *heart* Animals

This past weekend Beau and I ventured out to the Lincoln Park Zoo here in Chicago. This is a free zoo, and it is pretty darn good. This coming from a San Diego native at that. The Zoo is located in the famous Lincoln Park with numerous entrances around the whole park. Here is the entrance we found:


Then it was off for some animal viewing. First stop, the air conditioned underwater viewing for the Sea Lions!


Then some turtles, um, enjoying themselves.


Then off to the Monkey House!! This lady was RIGHT up against the glass. Were we looking at her or was she looking at us?


Then this big Silverback was sitting there angry and staring at his hands.


Then he shot us a glance of DEATH, that I sadly did not capture on film. But Beau was nice enough to reenact for us, shown here:


Then we went to the Lion house, and it was feeding time!! I can honestly say that I have never been this close to a lion as it tore into a meaty chunk of flesh!


After the zoo we went into Wrigleyville for a post Cubs game happy hour. And it was happy because they won that day :) Here we are with Chicago's own Old Style beer - notice the can wearing a jersey?


And I close with a fine example of the usage of puns in today's world. A crappy Chinese food place near our work called ... Wok's Up.