What a beautiful Spring day in Chi-Town! It has been a long time coming.
We woke up a little later than we planned because we went to bed too late last night. Well, I went to bed at midnight but someone was up until 3 am playing Warcraft.
I hit snooze one too many times this morning because I’m really loving our new mattress. Plus I got a pillow wedge last night to help elevate my head (I cannot sleep completely flat) and that made things even more comfortable.
We hit the animal show a little later than planned thanks to the snooze-fest and stopping at Dunkin Donuts first for a quick bite to eat. The show was interesting even though we didn’t buy anything. I was surprised no one had any hamsters or ferrets. There were a ton of reptiles and rats, though. And this one breeder had sugar gliders. I would have never even considered one for a pet until I saw them in person. I’m glad they were $200 each or we might have bought one on impulse which after reading this site would have been a huge mistake. They were adorable, though, and I enjoyed interacting with them.
We decided not to let the gorgeous weather go to waste, so we parked in downtown Wheaton (a beautiful nearby town) and visited the little shops. We ended up grabbing lunch at a place called Shane’s Deli. I got a cup of potato soup and half a turkey sandwich with avocado. Joe had an Italian sub which was yummy too.
After walking around a bit more and getting ice cream at another shop, we headed back to the car and drove to the mall so we could take back a few items and use my Sears gift card to get Smarty Pants for the Wii.
Hot Topic had these cute things called Skel Animals but none of the plush ones they carried were black which is what I wanted. Ah well.
I’m going to veg in front of the tv, computer and Wii now. ;)
There was an episode one time on Dirty Jobs, and I can’t remember what the person was taking care of, either bats or monkeys, but she had an infant room with all the young ones and fed them a mealworm shake. She would actually just dump tons of live mealworms into a blender, blend them up to liquid and feed them to the animals. The host of the show drank some of it – yuck. I could never own an animal that ate insects.