UYE All The Little Monkeys @ The Honolulu Zoo

Wow I haven’t been back to the Zoo since my family give me up for adoption to humans! Hehe… on a serious note I really haven’t been to the Zoo since my elementary years that was 14+ years ago and I don’t remember a thing from those field trips to the zoo.
Luckily Emi organized a UYE at the Honolulu Zoo! As soon as we got there we could feel the heat so we visited the gift shop and got us some sunscreen for the kiddies and the chaperones.
Once we soaked up the sunscreen we started our journey into the wild. We visited Birds, Turtles, Monkeys, Panda looking monkeys (as a little mini Emi insisted), goats, peacocks, giraffes, snakes (yuck), elephants getting baths, more birds, zebras, gigantic koi fishes, turtles reproducing, sleeping hippopotamus, alligators, weird animals and the kids making up names for them.
We took several breaks because the heat was just weighing us down but we did have our own personal tour guide! He decided when we could move on to the next animal and where we were going, he was great at it! They should consider hiring him, he is a bright boy!
It was great to hang out with busy bee Dean H and his daughter and got to meet Michael C. Yay we survived this adventure without any kiddies getting hurt, loosing any of them, or eaten by any animals :) Hooray!
#Yelp 365 Challenge: ⁰⁰³⁄₃₆₅

All I can add to Emi’s stellar review of this UYE is that I wished I could carry a portable A/​C with a KILLER long cord cause this day was HOT. NO wonder we smelled poop the WHOLE time!
The best was hanging, watching Emi’s face when she ate that DELICIOUS pretzel from the concession stand, smiling kiddies faces when we saw an animal in the reptile cave, hearing the words «milkshake» 1000 times, Racquel hogging the stroller, turtles having «alone time» in front of all the kids under the age of 8, Michael C. talking about the beginning of internet time and just plain laughing out butts off on my LAST day of Summer break.
Thank you to Emi, Racquel, and Michael and of course the supporting cast of kiddies that made this HOOOOOOOOOOOOT day a FUN day!

This review is for the awesome job that Emi H. did organizing the event. It was great to meet fellow Unilocalers Racquel S. and Dean H. I thought seeing the elephants and getting to meet other Unilocalers would have been the highlight of the day, but those damn turtles stole the show. Hahaha. Can’t wait til her next event.

It was a scorcher at the Honolulu Zoo.
Two kids & one baby in tow.
One au pair.
Two Unilocal Elites.
Three more kids.
One co-​worker.
And me. The work-​at-​home Mom.
That was our caravan for the day.
Oh and the smell of poop.
Yum.
We walked thru the bird sanctuary.
We said hello to the elephant’s butt.
We insisted that the black and white monkey was not a panda.
My daughter still believes its a panda.
We smelled poop.
Yum.
We visited the lizards.
We check emails on our phones.
We joked about trolls.
We discuss possible troll marriages.
I am disturbed.
Yum.
We stopped by a cage of monkeys and I notice one is knocked up.
Who was the father? Did she even know?
Was this a monkey gang bang?
We smelled more poop.
Yum.
We stopped for snacks at the ridiculously unorganized snack bar and paid way too much for a spam musubi.
I felt like I got robbed by a monkey holding a banana.
Oh the irony.
Do you smell that? Yup, poop.
Yum.
We saw the hippos who were sleeping.
I offered up my baby to the alligator.
The kids all screamed. The baby laughed.
My baby has a sick sense of humor.
Dean’s daughter amazed us with her obsession over a dead rhino.
What was his name?
Ask Dean’s daughter. She’ll know!
Oh look more poop.
Yum.
We saw the giraffes and I wondered how do giraffes have sex?
Do they have a ladder? Are they really flexible?
Why do I care?
Look an ostrich! Look two cheetahs!
Can we go get a milkshake now?
No, you get to smell more poop.
Yum
Off to the petting zoo.
We look at the giant koi that will most likely take over humanity.
They will. Oh yes, they will.
My son wants to pet the goats, but wisely reassesses his decision.
We watch turtles hump each other.
The kids are amazed.
#Awkward.
More turtle humping.
#More awkward.
We smell the worst poop ever. It’s everywhere.
Yum.
We wash our hands and go eat Teddy’s Bigger Burgers.
We talk about open heart surgery, bon dances, good food.
I think Michael C is really awesome.
I can’t eat a burger. All I can smell is poop.
Yum.