Lions and Tigers and Bears...Oh my!

So yesterday was a fun and eventful day. One of the things I got to do was go to the DC Zoo with some friends. We parked the car a few blocks away and decided to take the 'shortcut' through the gate that suggested 'pedestrians prohibited'. We split in half to see which way really was faster, and although the shortcut lost, we did get to experience a lovely trail covered in beautiful fall leaves along the way. The zoo here has lots of unique animals to see and we even got to see some of them do some crazy stuff. In the reptile center we saw a legless lizard (looked like a snake) attacking another one. It had blood on its mouth and the other lizard didn't ever move again, I like to think that it was just resting after the attack. Moving on to the elephants. There were two elephants that were separated from each other and one of them was going nuts, it made the loudest noises (which actually sounded like the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park), and then it kept trying to kick the metal door in. We got to see a mother ape with her baby, which was so cute, it acted a lot like a normal toddler. At one point the mother grabbed her by the arm and through her over her back and took her inside, I assume that either was either nap time or she needed to go to time-out. So all in all, it was a great afternoon spent at the zoo.