animal haters anonymous

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Confession time: I really don't like the zoo very much.

I know, I KNOW. Whitney it's the HENRY DOORLY ZOO! It's the best zoo in the country! It's amazing! How do you hate the zoo with all the cute animals and amazing exhibits?! How dare you?!

You guys don't understand.

Mostly because I went on two horrible dates, and one migraine-inducing daycare field trip there and it's just never been the same for me. Let me tell you, when you're with a really awkward guy and you daydream about falling to your death into the lion's cages, it just puts a damper on the whole place. When you've spent the whole day counting how many kids you have, saving children who were stuck in fences, and prying first graders off of you during the Kingdoms of the Night exhibit, something about it just doesn't make me skip around to a happy song when I hear that we're going to the zoo today. I wish it were different. Plus animals and I have never really gotten along (they love me and I want to kick them in the face).

But good nannies take their kids to the zoo, right? Even when it's 104965894530 degrees outside. Even when I ran seven miles this morning and just want to sit down. That's what good nannies do.

So we went to the zoo today.

And I decided to have a good attitude and figured taking pictures would help. And...you know what?



sharks above us



amazing


upside down!

well hi there








hot nannies. literally.




cocooning

this defies all logic!


disgustingly great

investigating


my boys can make it through a 20 ft maze. i have taught them well



...maybe the zoo isn't that bad. Maybe...animals aren't that bad.

When they're contained.

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  1. Carly M. BrownJuly 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM

    Oh Whitney. Your blog is literally the best thing I've seen today. I seriously love it. And the part about avoiding the zoo because of bad dates . . . I completely relate.

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