It was a quiet Sunday morning-this Sunday morning, in fact. I had just sent out a text to a few people asking about simple plans for the day. Suddenly, I got a call from Thomas, my host dad. Andrea, who works at my school, was leaving for a conference in Göttingen. To make the children feel better, he was going to take them to the zoo. Also, the kids missed me and were sad that I didn't live with them anymore. (Awwww.) Would I like to go?
Well, obviously.
Our visit to the zoo started with something highly exotic...a raccoon. On the bright side, it does make sense that they'd be exciting on a continent where they don't hang out in your back yard and get into your trash cans. And the German word for raccoon is "Waschbär" (Wash-bear), which is pretty adorable.
This camel was one of the first big animals we saw. The zoo did a great job of making the animals feel incredibly close.
Ronja, my nine-year-old host sister, was very into photographing things today. We stood next to each other and photographed things for quite a bit of the day.
This is the beginning of a building called the Darwineum, which showcases the theory of evolution. It confused me for quite a while, because people were using the name without explaining what it was, and "Darwineum" in German is pronounced "Dar-vin-neh-um". I finally caught the evolution part and suddenly everything made sense.
These pictures are especially for Geoff-live horseshoe crabs! I wanted to get video, because the movement of their legs was fascinating, but it didn't quite work out.
Note for Geoff: By the way, love, these crabs were about two thirds the size of Walter!
A leaf insect. Sadly, I think they only had one kind. I say, "I think", because running after the kids didn't really allow for careful inspection.
A mudskipper. They seem like something a few million years out of their time.
Lazy lizards.
In German, this is a "desert mouse". In English, it was a something-squirrel. Either way, adorable.
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