Zoo babies

What is it with this week?!

It must be the driving to and from the zoo twice a day that has fritzed out any and all able bodied brain cells. *sigh* It ends up being around 18 miles one direction, so I'm logging in over 72 miles that I normally don't drive, plus traffic. I don't like traffic. Guess I'm spoiled. Even when I worked I had odd hours (11 PM-7 shift, 5 AM-1:30, and then 6:30 AM-3) and didn't have to deal with traffic.

But I did get to look at a few of the new zoo babies today. There was the Diana Guenon monkey baby, plus the three adults. I got a quick glance at the lion cubs, but they were resting and all you could see were the ears. They are a lot bigger than the picture I found, weighing in around forty pounds. Mom lion pinned her gaze on me--creepy scary--I know they're well fed, but . . . yeah, that creepy. The penguins were swimming. And the flamingo babies look like big fat grey/white powderpuffs.

I've been to the zoo a lot as we have a season pass, so my goal was to check everything out after I dropped the kiddo off at zoo camp. I hoofed it around the zoo getting my daily walk in before heading back to the car. I was sweating from my shins, my scalp, and backs of my knees. My shirt had back and boobage sweat marks. Yeah, not pretty. When I got into the car the temperature registered 90 degrees--at 9:45 in the morning. They expect it to get over a hundred today with a heat index between 113-115, which means drink lots of water, don't do much of anything outside, and just chill out.

Now, to sort through the pile of suggestions for my query letter and start improving it . . . again. Next week will be synopsis week, unless I can figure out a way to procrastinate.

Write on!