Barry and I went to the Philadelphia Zoo last Thursday to celebrate my 29th birthday (yes,I will be celebrating my 29th birthday next year as well). Even with the twenty thousand children running around and screaming (apparently everyone had the day off from school for Rosh Hashanah, not just Barry), we had a great time.
After I enjoyed a very Harry Potter moment in the reptile house, we rode on the Zoo Balloon,


saw some animals,


and learned an important lesson about parrots.