My Boyfriend, Max

To carry on with the gorillas, well I fell in love. It was amazing. Sara knows all kinds of things about me now and I know random facts about her too! To shorten my post up some, the London zoo is great! I fell in love with the gorillas, and some owls (completely geeked out on that! Sara probably thinks I'm crazy) and the butterfly exhibit. My one love was an owl named Max and he is a Eurasian Eagle Owl. He was a cutie! I ran into him a couple of times. There were also a couple of screech owls that I came to know =) And (unfortunately) we didn't even get to make it to the actual Owl exhibit because it closed. But I got to know 3 owls which was very satisfying. The butterfly exhibit was AMAZING because there were so many and I took some really great photos. My favorite is, of course, the one that is camouflaged like an owl. I also say a couple of butterflies mating and some huge, scary, nocturnal moths (they only move at night, which is good b/cc I would be terrified if those were flying around). There was also a penguin exhibit and they were so adorable and once again photogenic.

Then there were the otters.

Oh my goodness.

The most adorable things that ever existed. First of all I have to say that Sara and I had great timing for getting to an exhibit and the animals coming right towards us for pictures. There must have been at least 10 otters all together (I have never seen so many together) and then came out together, swam together, cried together, sat on a log together, swam in another pond together...everything was together and they were so cute. I kept saying my sister would flip! My sister is going love this! So I took a bajillion photos of the otters for her...it's one of her favorite animals.

That about sums up the zoo. We saw more animals but those were the highlights. We also wandered around Regent's Park which is beautiful and then we when to an Italian restaurant for pizza. i had something that had artichokes. We also shared garlic bread. Then we went to another restaurant for dessert. We had meringue and I had vanilla gelato with espresso poured on top. SO delicious!!! After that Sara came over and we planned our Saturday. First we went to her place though to get her lap top, so I was able to see Marylebone. They have all these banksy copies up inside, that's why I point it out. Plus she has a great view and her room is small but it's like a spaceship.

That finally concludes my Friday =)