Wild Summer Nights
I’ve been in San Diego six years now and just had my first Night Zoo experience. Apparantly, just like in the wild, the cool animals do the interesting stuff in the dark.
Instead of floating like a rock, the hippo was doing high-speed laps by running underwater on her toes in a scene that brought the original Fantasia to life. The wild puppies were running around and fighting over a bush instead of looking for ways to beat the heat. Monkeys, gazelles and a poor lone polar bear were ‘doing things like they do on the Discovery Channel.’ The giraffes were moping around like their turn-down service was running late, and a peacock was prancing around the grounds of the Horn and Hoof Mesa mocking the caged land animals with both his freedom and his plumage.
But despite all those sights and spectables, all those examples of the wonderful diversity of the animal kingdom, probably the most memorable experience of the evening was enjoying a young tour bus driver entertaining the pedestrians near his empty vehicle by singing sea shanties as he made his required but pointless rounds. So, what would you do with a drunken sailor? Remember, it is Pride this weekend in San Diego.
The polar bear was having a personal moment to himself. Something must have been in the Purina Zoo Chow to make the monkies and the gazelle want to procreate.
And those giraffes….they just wanted to say hello, that’s all.
And remember, we got free churros!
How could I have forgotten the free churros?