Breakfast with the giraffes!

Kari received a great birthday present this year from Rich - a breakfast with the giraffes at the Detroit Zoo. Her mother in law Shirley, Kim and I accompanied her to the event yesterday. We were taken to our breakfast site - the side walk near the giraffes, where we dined on bagels, muffins, scones, fresh fruit, coffee and juice. While we were eating we were given some info on the giraffes - and reminded that we will be eye to eye with them and even though they are so cute we should not touch them - but they could touch us if they wanted. We walked up the ramp and fed these beautiful creatures rye crisp crackers and let them munch on leaves from branches that we held. She was right - we were eye to eye - and they are so beautiful! There are different kinds of giraffes - you can tell by the area between their spots - some are white and some are more light brown. We were honored to be eye to eye with Charday and Ajax - another one whose name I cannot remember was enjoying getting to some branches he couldn't reach before the storms of the night before. After the feeding time we were given a guided tour of the zoo - while riding one of the carts. How interesting to see the zoo with more information than I will ever remember!

Afterwards we picked up lettuce wraps from PeiWei and took them to Michelle's for lunch!

A great day for all of us! Pictures will be posted after Kim sends some to me - my camera was safe at home! (I have been losing things lately - like my digital camera and dad's house/car keys!)

Enjoy life!

Karla