animal attraction

last weekend we decided to take the kids to the zoo. a nice relaxing trip to the zoo. or so we thought. if we could find the effing zoo. so, here we are again. printer is still not hooked up to the new laptop. garmin is still not purchased. yet. i write the directions down and off we go. to south bend. now, in south bend or anywhere in indiana for that matter, there is a lack of street signs. i don't know if people steal them. or they just don't even bother. we were to turn left on a certain street. well, apparently we missed the street. or more than likely the sign wasn't even there to begin with. we end up in downtown. and then we end up in the not so nice part of town. never fails. besides, i don't even think there is a nice part of town in south bend. anyway, we turn back around and see a police officer parked in a church parking lot. so we stop. i get out of our car to approach and ask her for directions. she has to call dispatch. because even she can't tell us an easy way to get there from here. i am standing outside of her patrol car. i begin to feel a little uneasy. she was taking her own sweet time. and i appreciated her assistance but i kind of felt like, pardon me, my dick was out hanging in the wind. i mean she was in a bullet proof vest. and i wasn't. we get the directions and off we go. hey, there was even a sign for the zoo. but not when we got to the actual street we were to turn on. so, we had to turn around yet again and managed to actually find the zoo. i guess you can only get there from the east because there was a sign coming from that direction. now, what was once a relaxing trip to the zoo turned into a stressful ride of a whole lot of cussing. it appeared to be quite a nice zoo. there were lots of animal exhibits. it would have been even better if all of those animal exhibits actually had animals in them. and you know when your zoo is in the ghetto when the giraffes are packing heat. i included a photo of the lion because if there was an animal in an exhibit it was sleeping. this zoo reminded me of the time we went to detroit to visit our friends. it too was the same way. lots of animal exhibits. but no animals. but their lion took the cake. it was awake. i will give it that much. but it was so old it was gray. and when he opened his mouth instead of a roar it let out a meow. kind of ironic. don't you think?