Jungle Jack owned my soul last night

Last night I saw Jack Hannah!! It was so exciting..I heard like over a week ago he would be in Lebanon, NH but it was so quick I thought "Ooh yay!" and subsequently forgot. Which was SHTOOPID. Anyway, I remembered it at course late Thursday night when his showing was Friday. He was on David Letterman and in fits of squeeing I just hoped I would manage to get tickets. I was gonna splatter on here about it but I didn't want to get my hopes up just incase. So Friday morniong I called and whoo got standing room tickets x3333

So Friday was an excrutiating lab day. Well not really but it was very cold. We went on the Connecticut rivers to look for otters. We had to go down this steep as hell slope and I just went to hell with it and slid down on my ass. That was fun, I just aimed for trees to help me stop, and got down there with the rest of the group. Climbing back up was the part that was hard and my thighs were numb by that point because of how cold it was. Although I wasn't the last one up be any means.

So we got back late, I rushed for gas in the car and did that and then went home, cleaned myself up, and left with mom for Lebanon x3 I got Subway on the way (...Chicken Teriyaki sandwiches mmmm)

We got there real fast and Jack Hannah was walking around giving out autographed Photo postcards!!!! That was so cool. I ran down to him in the aisles of seats and asked for one and he just gave me what he was signing xDD I was like shaking and ran away.

First the Raptor Center did a very dorky water-downed childs thing for birds. It was kinda stupid but whatever, they had some birds on stage: a hawk, a barred owl, a horned owl who kept hoo-hooing xD, and a turkey vulture. The Hawk pooped! Hee hee.

.....And then Jack Hannah came out!!!! He was so cool. He showed us some videos..one was about Lowland Gorillas he encountered in Rwanda, that was neat. The second was him and his daughter I think tracking a bear and she was hibermating so they tranquilized her to be safe and removed the cub to weigh and check health...it was SO cute, such a pathetic baby bear and it kept crying xD They put it back with the momma bear and left after it snuggled back in.The third video was real sad..there was this rich woman who bought about 60 acres of land in Africa to make a rhino sanctuary since they were being poached so bad for their horns. She raised one black rhino from birth in....1986. Jack went back to see her in like..1996 or so and they went out and found the rhino she raised who followed her around again just like she used to. The rhino had a little babd. Jack said 3 weeks later, poachers came in and killed both that rhino and her baby. Very saw..I guess in like..1978 there was about 60,000 black rhinos, and now there's 2600. Just makes you sad.

He showed us a blooper real which was vute, and an old video from 1985 ion the David Letterman show where he was trying to show him a goat. First the goat crapped on stage xD And then he forced David to milk it and then accidentally got the milk all over David Letterman's pants. Then he tried to show him a baby squirrel..chaos lol.

Um...ANIMALS. He haaaad - Two armadillos, a sloth, a wolf puppy, a dingo, a baby monkey, a baby alligator, two pythons, some weird toad xD, hissing cockroaches, PENGUINS, a "Palm Sivet"..? I dunno how to spell it's a type of mongoose, a kangaroo, and OMG HE BROUGHT OUT A REAL LIVE CHEETAH. We all had to be quiet for that one so we didn't scare it.

So cool, what a pretty animal. He told us a lot of interesting facts about all of them. At the end when people were leaving they brought some animals on stage and let people have a closer look. The sloth was carried around on a large tree branch xD So cute. And Jack Hanna gave out more autographed photos..some little boys next to me wanted to shake his hand and of course right after them I was like "me too!?" and he didf and I was like OMG I SHOOK HIS HAAAAND xDDD And made small talk (you know the hey how ya doin" type)..I stayed down there until he finally went offstage.

They heared off to their hotel in the end, they bring the animals right in hotels to sleep with them in the rooms. He said to the audience they like to have fun at the hotels..last night after Letterman they went to a hotel and put the kangaroo out in the hall and hid. I guess the reaction other hotel goers had was..amusing lol. RThat amuses me so much xDD I mean....the idea of puting a kangaroo or penguin in the hotel hall and just..LOL.

So yea. A good night.

My legs hurt pretty bad from the climbing. So standing room was nice since sitting up and sitting down both kinda hurt. I am so outta shape.

I wish I went outside as much as I used to..I was thinking about that and got all nostalgic. When..when my friends from childhood lived here, I lived outside. We played hide and seek in the woods and went sledding. These are things I'd gladly do again and a lot at this age, if I could get the people and interest to do them. Sadly there is no one in the immediate area of East Haven :/

I do so miss the days of 90's - Xena, cartoons on Saturday mornings, the Backstreet Boys who I hated and loved at the time, and the nights spent outside hiding in the woods and hoping nothing would eat you.

Ah well.

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Guess I ought to leave a note here?

Hey, you: Last night you acted amused if anything on the size change. Heck you even started roleplaying around. If it was omg, such a problem, you should have talked to me then, I can adjust the size if it's going to make things difficult; I don't mind. Don't go and throw a fucking pissfit later and then accuse ME of having no logic or courtesy communication. That just serves to piss me off.

Btw, one reason he is so big is because when they first got together? I remember you being worried at the lion size because his mate was really big in quad form. So I made him bigger, and told you his quad size.

Anyway, whatever.