So today was my zoo date day ^-^ you should all go visit your loacl zoo, it is a blast! We saw every ssingle one of the animals and I discovered that I don't really like walking through the bird habbitates and stuff, I feel like they will attack me or something. Silly right? But my boyfriend promised to keep me safe, I even sat down and watched the bird show with him, half an hour of it. It was nice, but birds aren't exactly my favorite animal haha
We heard the plan for the new improvements to the zoo, there is a new Seal/sea lion cove being opened at the end of August, it is enviornmentally friendly and should help save water and money. Then by 2014 there will be a new African Safari exhibit on display for the public, which should be a lot of fun.
Now for the best part. They are going to get a King Cobra snake for their reptile house by the end of this year/beginning for next. I am really excited because snakes are my favorite animal!
I made my poor boyfriend go through that reptile house three times with me! We made friends with one of the snakes on display there. He was a Gaboon Viper, and he was so beautiful, we both adored him and decided to name him Charles.
This is him, Charles the great Gaboon Viper (featured in both photos shown here)!





















They generally grow to be from 4-6 feet long and they have huge fangs that are 2 inches in length!! It is so cool!! Charles wasn't very long, maybe about 3 feet or so, if that. He was however very fat..er..I mean..round haha as you can see in te picture. It isn't that he is unhealthy or anything like that, Gaboon Vipers are naturally quite large. I like the horns he has on his face, Charles really rocks those horns haha it is a shame that you guys can't really see the small details on him, he is so beautiful! I sat there next to him and I was just staring at how intricate and really complex his scales are! Oh well, iphone quality haha close enough I suppose.

Anyways, I just had to tell you all about my Charles and the zoo trip..though..now that I think about it, most of this was about Charles and maybe 1/3 was about the rest of the zoo..oops? Chalres is important! He is both a snake and my friend! Plus he is pretty ^-^

This is Riku signing out and now crashing XD it is so time for some sleep!