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December 30, 2004

Holiday Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo

Meredith's friend Tristan was in town visiting from Boston. We decided to hop the 6 train uptown (waaaay uptown) to check out the Holiday Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo!

Check out the rotunda at the zoo all decked out for the holidays!
The trees were decorated with lights...
...and, um, peacocks.
In a big pen we found THE REINDEER!
Holy, crap! Reindeer!
I guess reindeer are diurnal, because they were all sleepy and chill by the time we got there.
Chubby, lounging reindeer nuggets! After we realized that we weren't going to get to witness a holiday trampling or goring of a toddler we decided to make the rounds to check out some of the other "Holiday Animals"...
...like this, uh, camel.
Is that what the Three Wise Men rode on? Ok, I guess it qualifies then.
Meredith with camel.
I never realized how much I like camels! They're pretty neato! My favorite animal is a giraffe and camels actually kinda look quite a bit like giraffes in the face.
I also never realized how fucking huge they are! This one stood up...
...and everyone was all "Holy shit!"
Then he ran away.
They were getting ready to close up the zoo and they must've had some secret ultrasonic camel whistle - cus at 9:45 on the dot, homeboy here abruptly got up and trotted himself into his closed-off pen!
Meredith posed with the reindeer one last time and then we headed off to check out..
...the monkey house! Some other type of tamarin.
Meredith had tamarin hair because of her hat.
Love monkeys!
A family of baby capucians!
After the monkey house, we had just enough time to check out the seal and sea lion tank before we got the boot.