Ken & Tawinee

Kurt’s Blog: Do The Zoo…Rhino Style!

The kids and I went to the zoo on Tuesday, and the big attraction…the Rhinos! Heck yeah! They were still inside, but they are ready to hit the outdoors soon! They are AWESOME.

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The new rhino exhibit/area? Supercool…and the idea of feeding an ostrich? Super cool…although it terrifies my son to his very core (he has a thing with big birds, not a fan yet)…he prefers feeding the goats.

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By the way, I had a big moment of panic at the zoo. As we were getting on the train, my phone fell out of my pocket. The entire train ride around the zoo, I was frantically searching the “caboose” for it. No good. We get back to the station, and there it is…my phone…inches away from the railroad track. Whew. I was surprised a wallaby didn’t steal it.

My son has been talking about going on a camel ride…like he hasn’t ridden a camel 3 times in his short little life already, ha ha. The camels were at the Zoo on Tuesday…but Dexter said “No, we wait for mama”. Darn it, I sort of wanted to ride the camel.

I get asked frequently…how many times do you go to the zoo? If the weather is nice? Twice a week.

Kurt’s Words of Wisdom

“You can never have enough garlic in your salsa”.

There ya go.

The 2 best salsas you ask?

1. Pain is Good “Habanero Garlic” Batch No. 37 – Seriously AWESOME, but it can ruin your day.

2. Trader Joes Roasted Garlic Salsa – The garlic in this oozes greatness.

Somebody Please Tell Gwyneth Paltrow NOOOOOOOO!!!

She apparently wants a Pepper Potts Iron Man spin-off movie. Nooooooo!

I’m fine with Pepper…in movies 1 & 2…great…but she became way too much of a focus of this awful Iron Man 3.

By the way, after thinking about it more…I’m lowering my grade of Iron Man 3 from a D+  to a D-.

AWESOME is as AWESOME does!

 

 

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