alexist

As I mentioned, I bought some new makeup Thursday, including new foundation.

I had some of the old stuff left, so I didn't use it on Saturday.

I just noticed that the girl gave me the Studio Fix, not the Studio Tech :/ (the first is the kind that goes on dry, which I don't like; the 2nd is cream type). Grr. Of course now it's opened and I can't return it...

Saw this on the Williamsburg Bridge the other day:

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=9&aid=53865

Today Neil and I went to the Bronx Zoo. (As you may know, I really like the zoo. :) Neil says I am obsessed with animals. He is probably right.)

It was good fun. We got to see the Butterfly Garden, the monkey house (teeny baby ebony langur! though despite the name it was reddish brown; apparently brown ebony langurs occur on Java), a rather depressed looking snow leopard, 2 Asian elephants (I prefer African), a mother and baby Indian rhino, the tigers (Alexis was there - but behind a log on the other side of the exhibit; Sasha was being very energetic in the other half), and best of all (as always) the Congo Gorilla Forest. I got to see colobus monkeys, managed to spot the okapi, and spent ages in front of the gorillas. This is always really good, because the gorillas are intelligent, social, and know that they're being watched--and don't mind! One had a good trick of jumping against the glass. There was also a 2 week old baby gorilla. These were western lowland gorillas, which aren't as threatened as mountain gorillas (the ones Dian Fossey worked with, if you've seen Gorillas in the Mist--there are about 12,000 eastern gorillas, only 350 of which are mountain gorillas. There are about 100,000 western gorillas.) Still, it's a truly impressive conservation effort and a baby is the culmination of all that. And a baby gorilla would be adorable and amazing even if it weren't a member of an endangered species!

Some photos at http://alexis.spodding.com/zoo/zoo.html

Simply taken off the camera and exported to web page from iPhoto - no comments, sorry! Perhaps tomorrow. ;)

I bought a stuffed colobus monkey (because they're very cool) and a baby snow leopard. Carly wanted the mother and baby elephant I have but they didn't have it this time, so I just got her a baby stuffed elephant. (Elephants are very popular in my family; my mother used to collect them!)

We stopped for Italian food on the way home. Enormous portions.

Then Neil watched the Yankees beat the Orioles (he loves watching sport on a high definition plasma screen) and I baked cookies (triple chocolate, promised my dad some).

Bailey likes the colobus monkey. I showed it to her and she tried to play with it. When I put it back in the bag, she went and pulled it out! Guess she's not so stupid. :) Ended up putting the bag in the closet. Mind you, as she's still a puppy (just--I think she'll be a year old soon) she'll play with anything. She likes running after her toys, and when she picks one of them up (a big ring with a squeaky thing in the middle) she shakes her head like a mad thing so it makes lots of noise. Silly dog. She insists on sleeping in the bed with us (Jen warned us that she does this).