Giraffes, monkeys, and birds... Oh My!

I did something fun with my brother, who just recently returned from the UK, today! But first I want to tell you about this book I am reading. Be patient I will get to that title in a minute... *wink*

I purchased this book of the website I use to find new books to read (ones that I normal wouldn't pick up). Website information here. If you like to read this website is for you... books range from free to $2.99. Not a bad deal...

So anyways this book is titled Timebound by Rysa Walker. This book is fascinating. It is about time travel, but not normal time travel... can time travel even be considered normal? Anyways, in this book people in the future are born with a gift that they grow up learning about and they pursue a career according to their gift. One of those gifts is the ability to time travel, but it is used only for research of history... so people with the time travel gift travel back in time to study further certain points in history. The main character Kate gets wrapped up in all of this and now I am traveling along with her on this journey. If you are looking for something interesting to read I recommend this book. 

*photo found on Google

Okay now on to the giraffes, monkeys, and birds... like I said I did something fun with my brother today. We went to the Central Florida Zoo. It is located in Sanford and lucky for us it wasn't that far of a drive. I hadn't been to the Zoo and I don't know how long and I had been hearing about this feed the giraffes for months now. I told myself when school ended I would go to the zoo and feed the giraffes. 

My brother just returned from studying abroad in England and I figured he would be the perfect person to go to the zoo with since I hadn't seen him in a few months, so we needed to catch up. 

We were off to feed the giraffes and see all the other animals.

Get ready... grab a cup o' joe or tea which ever you prefer and snuggle up this is gonna be a long one...

This is Sir Gus and he was kind enough to make this pose for me so I could snap a picture. How kind of him *wink*

Now that I have taken you on a virtual journey through the zoo its time for the giraffes and flowers.

Did you know that? I sure didn't

I know this photo is blurry but I was trying to capture the butterflies flying around in the flowers.

Shrimp plant huh? They even look like little shrimps hehe

Florida is known for its beautiful sunshine, which makes for great lighting for photos, but it was humid and hot that day.

 

Derek and I found ourselves playing in the gardens.

There was some beautiful art work throughout the zoo painted by a man named Rick Cannizzaro. The one pictured above is my favorite.

The zoo has a ropes course that spreads over a pretty big area... I want to go back just so I can do the ropes course, even though I am afraid of heights *wink* 

Look for my next post on feeding the giraffes. I promise it won't be as long as this one. 

xo

Kelly

*My Thoughts*

I had a fun day out with my brother... it is good to have him back.

It was very hot that day and I wore a maxi skirt, which was a bad decision on my part since it didn't breathe that well. But I love the skirt. I got it from Bealls if anyone is wondering.