Jungle Jack Hanna

Well let's just say that Dad knows what color my car is - and it isn't red.  Thursday I found out that he was in the Pella hospital - he had wanted to drive himself but something happened that he needed to call the ambulance.  I finally tracked him down by phone and the doctor that was seeing him was thinking of transporting Dad to DSM via ambulance that day to Lutheran or Methodist to have a pacemaker put in that day or Friday.  Dad asked how the car was doing and something like, "it is red right?"  I'm like, "ahhhhhh."  Long story short - my cousin saw my pic I posted on Facebook with my "old" car and the new car and told my Aunt (Dad's sister) that my car looked kind of "dark".  My Aunt told Dad this :)  Gotta love it.  The good news is that Dad didn't need to come to DSM for a pacemaker yet.  He was released from the Pella hospital Friday morning and will be meeting with a cardiologist soon.

I'm leaning on the new car and the blue car on the other side is the old car.

Friday was ok.  Around 1:40 pm I looked heavenward and blew a kiss to Mike.

Friday night my sis-in-law, niece and I headed to the Jack Hanna fundraiser for Blank Park Zoo that was held at Vet's Auditorium.  We each got to choose between a book Jack had written or a book geared more toward kids about Jack's travels and animals he's worked with.  Jack did a pre-meet event before the dinner where he met everyone, autographed our book and we could get our picture taken with him.  The first thing we all three noticed when Jack walked into the room - he's not as tall as we thought he was.  I googled how old he was - he was born in '47 like Mike and is 65.  Enjoy the pix of the event and comments below.

Ok, while I had my time with Jack I comment on how I enjoyed seeing him on the Johnny Carson show.  Jack didn't say much but mentioned that he was on the David Letterman show.  Later during his talk before dinner he mentioned that he had never done the Carson show - that was Jim Fowler from Mutual of Omaha.  Way to go McFall............

Little armadillo all curled up into itself - Mike and I had seen one in a zoo on St. Thomas or another island that was just running around and around in his enclosure.  We laughed and said he was doing laps.

An African porcupine - what a cutie and the guy (Tony) holding her wasn't too bad either :)  In some of the other photos you'll see animals on a table - that was in the room with the dinner.  Jack had the porcupine come out again during that time and said she would get to be bigger than the table.  Tony wasn't watching her very closely because she toppled off the table.  Tony popped down to pick her up and then just looked at Jack like "ooops".

Baby albino kangaroo.

I'll touch or run after iguanas, lizards or baby alligators - no problem - but snakes I can't run away from them fast enough.

A Canadian Lynx that the eyes glowed for some reason in my pictures.

Kind of hard to see the black bear cub.  He's looking forward, you can sort of see his nose and mouth.

I can't remember what this was but it was like a mongoose.  It was too bad that the background was so dark and some of the animals were black.

 Little penguin dude was so cute!

100 pound albino snake - blick.

HUGE snapping turtle - I think Jack said it weighed 100 pounds.

Young cheetah - beautiful animal.