Trip to Evansville, day two

When we woke up Friday morning, Daddy wasn't feeling so hot. He'd caught some kind of nasty stomach bug. We stopped by Walgreens and dosed him up on about five different medicines, then swung by the University of Evansville to check out the changes and say hi to some professors. Unfortunately a couple Mommy wanted to talk to weren't there (one was overseas and the other was either sick or playing golf), but we did talk to one, Dr. Weiss, for an hour or so. Mommy was his research assistant as an undergrad and presented papers at national and international psychology conferences with him. He told Mommy she should have lots of kids, because apparently there's a genetic component to good behavior that you're just not going to get if you adopt from the ghettoes of Durham. We also stopped by to talk to another one of Mommy's psych prof, Dr. Becker, who spun me around in circles like an airplane.
Here I am in front of the school. Mommy wouldn't let me eat the mulch or flowers, although I did try.

Next it was off to the zoo! One of the things Mommy and Daddy like about the Midwest is that all the bigger towns have their own zoos, unlike North Carolina where there's only one for the whole state. We went with Daddy's friends Kelly and Paul and their two daughters, Hannah and Paige.

There were all kinds of funky signs at the zoo, like this one.Don't drink dog poop, check. There was also one outside all the monkey cages that said, "Please don't feed us. We will fight to defend our homes." So, apparently monkeys consider offers of food to be territorial invasions?

During lunch, I got my first girlfriend! She said I was cute! I don't know how well the relationship will work, seeing as how it's long-distance and I'd rather chew on a phone than talk into it. She's also a bit old for me (she's five). Maybe I'll marry her sister Paige instead someday, since she's closer to my age (she's three months old).

It was really hot at the zoo. Daddy still wasn't feeling great, so he took a break to sit in the air-conditioned monkey house. After a couple hours of looking at animals, I was ready to join him.
I woke up long enough to see the famous monkey boat (Vladimir Nabokov mentions it in Lolita). Unfortunately it no longer has monkeys on it. Mommy and Daddy think they should be put back on, with crocodiles in the moat to keep them in their place.Then it was back to the hotel. Daddy had planned to go out with some of his friends tonight, but although he was feeling better at this point, just tired, he didn't want to relapse, so we spent the evening watching the season finales of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis. (We don't have cable, so one of the perks of staying at a hotel is watching Sci-Fi and Comedy Central).