eaw and I visited the Columbus Zoo today with a friend and her daughter whom we met through baby yoga. I was completely impressed with the zoo and look forward to returning in the future. Despite the ethical/philosophical conundrum a zoo represents, this particular zoo is huge, educational, culturally sensitive, wheelchair accessible, and donates all of the proceeds from the adjacent water park (which it owns) to animal preservation and environmental conservation. So, I didn’t mind shelling out my admission fee. eaw enjoyed himself thoroughly, offering every possible inflection of “oooh”. We spent a few hours visiting the animals, most remarkably the manatees and bats. We also heard the lion roar just a few feet from us, and survived some very aggressive geese while we picnicked. Although we saw many live animals, we only managed to get a shot with some sculptures. Not to worry, we will return and capture the live beasts on film.
In other news, mtw was given an electric guitar by our friend Darren in Philadelphia last weekend. This evening he invited a friend over to help string the guitar and get a few tips on playing while I enjoyed an evening out at a student dance performance at OSU. Turns out, eaw truly is a rock star and to quote “This is Spinal Tap:”
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
eaw and I visited the Columbus Zoo today with a friend and her daughter whom we met through baby yoga. I was completely impressed with the zoo and look forward to returning in the future. Despite the ethical/philosophical conundrum a zoo represents, this particular zoo is huge, educational, culturally sensitive, wheelchair accessible, and donates all of the proceeds from the adjacent water park (which it owns) to animal preservation and environmental conservation. So, I didn’t mind shelling out my admission fee. eaw enjoyed himself thoroughly, offering every possible inflection of “oooh”. We spent a few hours visiting the animals, most remarkably the manatees and bats. We also heard the lion roar just a few feet from us, and survived some very aggressive geese while we picnicked. Although we saw many live animals, we only managed to get a shot with some sculptures. Not to worry, we will return and capture the live beasts on film.
In other news, mtw was given an electric guitar by our friend Darren in Philadelphia last weekend. This evening he invited a friend over to help string the guitar and get a few tips on playing while I enjoyed an evening out at a student dance performance at OSU. Turns out, eaw truly is a rock star and to quote “This is Spinal Tap:”
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