Poor tora-chan

Today I visted the ZOO! It was a fairly massive bus ride up through the mountains near Hiroshima and by the time I got there I was starting to feel the hangover that I thought I had avoided. But it was surprisingly cheap to get in and they had lots of good things for kids to do. The animals themselves were a little bit under the weather, aside from the baby elephant which was kicking a soccer ball around with its keepers. I felt really sad about the tigers who had a tiny cage no bigger thanmy apartment for two of them. They were both just lying there with their backs to us as if in protest. The lions had a better enclosure, I think because they were more popular, the kids didn't seem to know what the tiger was but were heaps excited to see the lions (even though they too were just lazing around).

I got plenty of sun today and even managed to get my legs out it was so warm! There should be umbrella protocol though, like you have to fold it up in any place where you aren't alone because I saw heaps of people nearly lose their eyes because some woman was using her umbrella to advance her way through the crowd to get a better look at an animal. They love a bit of the old parasol action over here.