Well as you can see we got out of the "Concrete Jungle" today and took the #2 Red Line up to the Bronx Zoo. It worked out real well because today was a very nice spring day. It also worked out well because on Wednesdays it is good to know that they let you choose your price for admission. We were at the zoo from about 1015a til around 4pm and made our way back to the Hope Lodge. The animals seen in the pictures are the Giraffes (Jamie's favorite) which they just had a baby at the zoo and its name is Abigail and is in the picture. The dog below is an African Wild Dog. While at the zoo we toured a couple of the special attractions: The Congo Forest which had the Gorillas and also the Wild Asia Monorail which was about a 20 minute ride where you got to see Tigers, Elephants, and Rhinos up close in a more natural environment.
Upon arriving back at the Hope Lodge there was a catered dinner tonight which had really good salad, rice, and chicken all which was organic so that is good for a lot of the individuals who stay here whose immune systems are really beat down. While at the dinner we shared a table with a girl our age who was from Maryland and her mother. The girl was very nice to talk to and we shared our different paths that got us here at the Hope Lodge. She currently wears a wig and made a funny comment that the chemo can give her hot flashes and when this happens she sometimes has to "Pop the Top" referring to taking her wig off. Both Jamie and I got a good laugh out of her analogy.
Over the past couple of days we have noticed that my hair, although short has begun to fall out so we made the decision to "buzz" it tonight with no guard on the trimmers. This may have been the one time I would have trusted my Dad to cut my hair, he has been banned since the 9th grade when he was trimming my hair and a guard to the trimmer fell off and left a nice bald spot on the back of my head. I also noticed when I rubbed my face that my 5 o'clock shadow would show up on my hand so I shaved for likely the last time for a while and put away my shaving cream and razor. I now really look the part...haha. Jamie was my nurse afterwards and changed the dressing to my catheter site. We're watching Game 5 Nuggets vs Mavs...Go Nuggets.
p.s. Barnes I was not bagging on Valley Falls, you know I have nothing but good memories from our time out there with Betty and Lester and the around the clock Softball Tourney.
Shane, we heard from another person here at the Hope Lodge that we need to go to Grimaldi's...we'll have to check it out.
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