London Zoo
Beware. Do not order Jacket Potatoes unless you check that you aren't getting the ones smothered in mayo. It sounded tasty on the menu: Ham and Cheese Jacket Potatoes. However the first ingredient in the dish was not cheese or ham or even potatoes, it was mayo.
We took the tube to Regent's Park and walked up to London Zoo. It was kind of overcast so not many people were there. They were feeding the Kangaroos when we arrived. Apparently, kangaroos can not work their back legs independently. They had a huge canopy forest filled with tiny monkeys that were playing tag. On our way to the bird show, we passed some very sleepy tigers. The leopard had just woken up and was pacing his tiny cage. You could just see in it's eyes that it wished there was no fence between it and the plump tourists just a foot away. The Bird Show had this long legged bird from south america that repeatedly killed a rubber snake by beating it against a rock. It was cute, but not as cute as the penguins. The penguin feeding was a frenzy of tuxedoed fury. The poor zookeeper feeding them kept getting pecked from all side by impatient penguins. They had two rockhopper penguins (they have big yellow eyebrows) in their display the rest were a different breed. The two rockhoppers came from a different zoo and were sent to this zoo because they were playing soccer with the rockhopper penguin eggs. Apparently they don't do the same with different penguin breeds eggs, but they still had a lot of attitude. The zookeeper had to keep breaking up fights that the rockhoppers kept starting.
After the penguin feeding we went to see the porcupines exhibit, which was in the old penguin exhibit. Apparently the porcupines found the nozzle for the penguin pool after they were first moved there and turned their sand box into a mud hole. The zookeepers had to further porcuproof the exhibit and they haven't muddied it up since, though they still keep digging out the fake trees.
We had just finished seeing the otters when a torrential rain started falling. We took cover under the tarp at another show with a cute meerkat and a huge owl.
After that we went to the British museum where we got in about an hour of looking before they closed. There is way too much to see there for even a whole day. But it is still impressive to see scissors and glass from before the birth of Christ.
We rushed over to see the 5678's play at the Boston Arms, but we and about 200 others were too late.
Thwarted in our attempts to find live entertainment we went back to Gutshot. We had a bad session and lost some money. There were some brutal out draws. Nut flush to full house, Two pair to trips and the like. The nut flush draw out was my own fault as I thought I could slow play it. When the board paired on the end I wasn't worried about it and went all in as I thought the other guy had top pair. Instead his two pair had become a full house and he took a huge pot. It has reminded me just how dangerous it is to slowplay.
We took the tube to Regent's Park and walked up to London Zoo. It was kind of overcast so not many people were there. They were feeding the Kangaroos when we arrived. Apparently, kangaroos can not work their back legs independently. They had a huge canopy forest filled with tiny monkeys that were playing tag. On our way to the bird show, we passed some very sleepy tigers. The leopard had just woken up and was pacing his tiny cage. You could just see in it's eyes that it wished there was no fence between it and the plump tourists just a foot away. The Bird Show had this long legged bird from south america that repeatedly killed a rubber snake by beating it against a rock. It was cute, but not as cute as the penguins. The penguin feeding was a frenzy of tuxedoed fury. The poor zookeeper feeding them kept getting pecked from all side by impatient penguins. They had two rockhopper penguins (they have big yellow eyebrows) in their display the rest were a different breed. The two rockhoppers came from a different zoo and were sent to this zoo because they were playing soccer with the rockhopper penguin eggs. Apparently they don't do the same with different penguin breeds eggs, but they still had a lot of attitude. The zookeeper had to keep breaking up fights that the rockhoppers kept starting.
After the penguin feeding we went to see the porcupines exhibit, which was in the old penguin exhibit. Apparently the porcupines found the nozzle for the penguin pool after they were first moved there and turned their sand box into a mud hole. The zookeepers had to further porcuproof the exhibit and they haven't muddied it up since, though they still keep digging out the fake trees.
We had just finished seeing the otters when a torrential rain started falling. We took cover under the tarp at another show with a cute meerkat and a huge owl.
After that we went to the British museum where we got in about an hour of looking before they closed. There is way too much to see there for even a whole day. But it is still impressive to see scissors and glass from before the birth of Christ.
We rushed over to see the 5678's play at the Boston Arms, but we and about 200 others were too late.
Thwarted in our attempts to find live entertainment we went back to Gutshot. We had a bad session and lost some money. There were some brutal out draws. Nut flush to full house, Two pair to trips and the like. The nut flush draw out was my own fault as I thought I could slow play it. When the board paired on the end I wasn't worried about it and went all in as I thought the other guy had top pair. Instead his two pair had become a full house and he took a huge pot. It has reminded me just how dangerous it is to slowplay.
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