Lemur Attacks

Dear Blog Readers,

It’s been a while.  We’ll try to be better–we promise!

Today, I have a funny story to tell pertaining to our second zoo experience.  We decided to go back to the zoo to finish exploring the sections we didn’t get to our first time.  It was definitely worth the trip:)  I even went into the snake enclosure–mom, you would have been proud.  For those of you who don’t know, I despise snakes to the point that if I even see one, I will probably freak out.  But, John dragged me into the “reptile experience” where the animals are allowed free roam.  The sign on the door promised snakes, but luckily, I didn’t see any.  But, John did think it was hilarious to make hissing noises and tickle the back of my neck.  So not funny.

After the reptile enclosure, we ventured into yet another enclosure with rainforest animals.  Before it became the concrete jungle, Singapore itself was a tropical rainforest.  Just one degree north or the equator and humid as you could possibly imagine, it still feels very much like one.  Anyhow, we walked through the enclosure and decided to pet some unidentified animal.  I’ve gotten much braver since moving over here:)

Petting the sweet random animal

The petting of the random animal was probably the most tame thing that happened inside that enclosure.  As we ventured further, we discovered that, much to our delight, it was time to feed the lemurs!  If you’re like us, when you see a lemur, you’re first thoughts are “I like to move it move it” from the movie “Madagascar.”  So, we started singing the song and dancing towards the lemurs only to discover they were about twenty times more hyper than we were.  Hard to imagine.  They were jumping from branch to branch, wrestling each other, and swiping food from the zoo keeper.  Then, John decided to try to take some upclose pictures of these insane animals.  He was standing about a foot from the lemur getting some incredible shots, when all of the sudden, the lemur lept at him and landed on his arm!!!!  Luckily, it pushed off and decided to attack another lemur, so we were safe:)  Thank goodness–you never know how lemur attacks are going to end!

Last night, we saw “Madagascar 2” and appreciated the personalities of King Julien, Mauriece, and Mort after our run in with the dear lemurs.  Here are a few pictures of us with these cool creatures!

So, our zoo adventure was awesome.  Like I’ve said in previous entries, it’s cool to see animals in the zoo that I’ve never seen before.  Because we’re in a different part of the world, I guess the pickin’ are good:)

More to come later…stay tuned!