Look: bamboo! The background for our blog is justified now.

Hey guys,

Erica here. We seem to be getting better at the whole posting thing: three posts in two days! I apologise in advance for the photo dump that this is going to be; we went to the bird sanctuary and zoo and I went snap-happy. I absolutely adore zoos and the Singapore Zoo is the best zoo I've ever been to. It was absolutely insane how close you could get to some of the animals.

Before I get started on the zoo pictures I want to clarify something from Kaelin's last post: that ridiculous face I was making was for this weird flower:

I mean, seriously? Who wouldn't make a face at a flower like that?

Now onto the animals!
We went to the bird sanctuary first, which was much cooler than I expected. I'm not huge on birds, but these birds were awesome!

This pelican just wanted to be a tourist like the rest of us.

"Fear my wings and my weird throat pouch thing!"

"Yeah, I'm awesome with my awesome colours, what's it to you?"

"This is my branch - get off!"

The sign says to leave the cups in the box. The lories did not agree.

"I see you with my creepy red eye."

So many brightly coloured birds!

Look how close we got!

After the bird sanctuary we went to the zoo, which was spectacularly awesome and had some truly weird animals:

I forget what these were called, but they were weird and ugly.

False gharial: I'd hate to meet a real one

Then there were the white tigers

Kaelin getting mauled by a tiger statue

The real white tigers who are too cool to maul us

Other awesome animals included the following:

Mongooses! Sleeping in the sun.

Squirrel monkeys! Also sleeping in the sun, though in weird poses.

Fruit bat! Sleeping upside down in the sun.

A common theme for the day involved animals staring at me as I took their pictures:

Mouse deer: "What do you want?"

Baboon: "I really wish you'd go away."

Komodo dragon: "I will eat you if you don't leave."

Giant tortoise: "Please let me sleep."

Jaguar: "Will you feed me?"

Lion: "Seriously, just go away."

Black and white ruffed lemur: freaked out by my picture taking

And now for pictures showing just how close we got to the animals:

Ring-tailed lemur tail and Kaelin's foot!

I wasn't kicking them, they were just too cute!

So cute!

I may have pet his tail...

And finally the obligatory pictures of us making fools of ourselves:

"Ele-Fun Area? Yes, please!"

Kaelin forcing me to be the scale for a very large snake