Apparently my post was too big? I am not sure, but here are some more of our happenings...
More delicious food.... Kabobs!
*My parents bought me the Wii game "Just Dance" for a graduation present. It is so fun! We even got my parents and Kamille to dance with us!!
*We are headed up to Washington soon for a vacation and of course David NEEDS to fish and since I have never technically have fished, he had to make sure I know how. So he planned this date and made me close my eyes. We ended up at this park we like with fishing gear... He taught me how to cast and reel... I don't even know what I am talking about! haha Anyway, he had drawn various types of fish on construction paper. I had to catch each of them and could only keep a certain number of them. On the back of the paper he had written down different activities. The fish I kept determined what we did the rest of our date. We ended up going to the MOA and then eating at Magleby's Fresh.
* I survived my first year of teaching!! I taught fourth grade. I loved it most days, but some days were a bit harder... We started with the ceiling collapsing and flooding my room and ended with moving my stuff into a classroom into the school where I will be teaching fifth grade next year!
*We went on our annual Hogle Zoo date! This started one year ago when David had to go identify birds for his biology class. We had a fun time, so we planned and went again.
Right after we got into the zoo, two men came up behind us and one said, "What up [bad slang for an African American]?" Both of us unsure of what to do, warily turned around. The same man said to me, "You have beautiful blue eyes [female dog]!" We turned around and they walked past as the man repeated that last word over and over. He had Tourette's Syndrome or something that caused him to have tics. The man he was with was a sketchy looking tattooed/pierced up fellow. As he walked away, it made me sad that saying bad things like that had been reinforced throughout his life.
Anyway, back to our zoo trip....
This was the duck we stared at as the men passed.... These monkeys were so funny! They were more of them, but the littlest one kept picking on the others and then would climb and run away as the bigger ones (who didn't want to play as much) would chase him and pull on his tail.
All of the big cats were pacing...
Dorks!
The baby elephant, Zuri!
This peacock liked David I supposed because we were the only ones around and he started showing off his plumage.... :) We got a cool video of him coming closer and shaking his tail end. haha
We also ate a picnic in the park, visited a big cathedral, walked around the Gateway Mall in the rain, and stopped at Ikea!
Anyway, on our walk we decided to sit on some rocks next to the pond. We watched the ducks teaching the baby ducks to swim and preen themselves. In the middle of the pond there is a bunch of cattails (or something similar) full of birds. We were fascinated by the many yellow-headed blackbirds. Above is a picture of a male. Below is a picture of the female. 
We just sat and chatted for a few minutes when a female yellow-headed blackbird flew a little too close for comfort by me. David laughed as a buried my hooded head in his shoulder. We continued talking and joking around when this bird came back around and dived directly for us! It was terrifying!! We got up and started walking away as it came by one last time. Apparently we were still too close to this female for her comfort. I am guessing she had a nest nearby, but we couldn't see it and she just went back to the middle of the pond to her cattail perch. Across the pond from us were a couple of boys who found this act pretty entertaining. It was scary. I kept imagining this horrifying image from a time we were flipping through the channels on T.V. The image I was picturing was of these huge blackbirds that had lunged after sheep and burrowed into their backs and sucked their blood/ate their flesh. TERRIFYING! Luckily for us, we came away from our Sunday stroll unscathed by the dive-bombing mama bird.
