poppycake? poppycock.

So, yesterday I took off work for the holiday. As my coworker said, 'Jew for a day' haha but anyway, here's why I don't like this holiday- the two foods associated with it are poppyseed cake and honey cake, both make me sad. Poppyseed cake smells heavenly while its baking in the oven. But, alas, it tastes like blah. Honey cake looks delicious, it is a rich moist brown. But looks can be deceiving, because actually, it tastes like ass.

To celebrate the holiday, I took my brother, sister, Cody & Jake to an animal sanctuary in Thurmont, MD. We got to see a lot of cute baby aminals, up close, which was cute, but really I don't know why its called a sanctuary because really it was just a zoo, and the kind of zoo that makes me sad. The cages were too small. The grizzly bear lives on concrete his whole life. That made it hard to enjoy. But, we did get to pet a baby zebra (their nose is softer then velvet), see baby lions playing with baby sunbears, get licked by a tortoise, and stuff.

Then we went on a hike to a waterfall. On the way I drove over this road that was being repaved. I accidentally drove on the wrong side, they had covered it with some white powder stuff - it was so cool! there were these giant opaque clouds of dust on both sides of the car, all the way up to the windows, it looked cartoony like this one episode of Amazing Stories where this young soldier got locked in the plastic bubble compartment under the plane where you sit to man the guns, and the landing gear was stuck, and they were going to have to land the plane on the belly and everyone knew he was going to be killed. he was an artist and always drawing cartoons of the other soldiers. While he was down there he drew a cartoon of the airplane with giant yellow bubbly inflated tires on the bottom. when they landed, it was a shockingly gentle landing rather then the violent crash landing they expected. everyone got out and was amazed to see the airplane sitting on giant bubbly yellow cartoon wheels! The guy who was trapped was freed from the bubble, he had passed out. When they woke him up, the cartoon tires disappeared and the plane collapsed. Anyway I guess the point is it was so cool looking like being in a cartoon! Unfortunately it left my car covered in some sort of white powder chemical that a road worker told me can only be removed by vinegar and shouldn't be left on the car for even a day.... ack

Anyway, on the hike we saw a snake, that was freaky.
Jake said, 'come on ariella, climbing up the waterfall is easy, I can do it and my shoes aren't even attractive!' (translation: my shoes don't have traction)
hehe

Anyway then we went to Pizza Hut and it was soooo good. They have this deal where if you get one large specialty pizza you get a medium one topping pan pizza for a quarter!

A baby lion wrestling with a baby sun bear:

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