Friday night we were going to a concert in the zoo. The Toranga Zoo is on the North side of the the Sydney Harbor and has spectacular views of the Harbor and is very nicely laid out and landscaped. It had been raining for a couple days and it was absolutely pouring that morning. By the time I was supposed to head for the zoo the rain had mostly stopped. However, the traffic was ridiculous! I was sitting on the bus watching as the minutes ticked by and the ferry departure kept creeping closer and closer. The bus finally got to the vicinity of the ferry and I jetted off and sprinted over wet brick sidewalks, avoiding monstrous wipeouts somehow, and leapt onto the ferry like Feivel the mouse in that Disney movie. The concert was a Beatles tribute band and the songs were great. Of course it immediately started pouring down rain and since we were with a group of people and some of them had kids everything started to fall apart rather quickly. We went back to a friends house and spent the evening hanging out under a nice patio cover with no rain drenching us. Everything would be ideal and perfect if that's where the story ended, but that's where my catastrophe begins. The couple who's house we went to had just had a litter of kittens. Since you all know Melissa you can only imagine where this went! Melissa was trying to get me to agree to one of her cat schemes and I was staunchly opposing it. It went back and forth and forth and back pretty much all night. I'm not sure where we stand at the moment on the issue, but I do know that I'm allergic!!! Since I'm writing the posts I guess that I have the media under my control and can sway public opinion...
On actual Valentine's Day we didn't do much. I know it was sad and I'm sure I'm the bad guy but c'mon how am I supposed to take my lovely wife to dinner when my job and income is sifting through our couch cushions looking for change that is ours anyways so I'm not really adding to the bottom line - just sorta recycling! No, we both agreed to keep it quiet this year. Instead we hosted a Valentine's evening to the orphans. That is Americans whose significant others were not around. It was fun we just hung out and spent the evening traumatized as my friend Chris recounted his version of witnessing the first shark attack in Bondi in over 60 years or something. So, hopefully you all had a special time with your special someone and your evening was special. Oh, and CONGRATS TO KYLE AND ANDREA!
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