Since we lived so close, we figured it was time for us to make our way over to the London Zoo. The Zoo is at the top of Regents Park, which is the park that is about 1 1/2 miles from our flat. We got up early figuring we could get there right when they open and beat some of the crowds. Also, that way we could plan out to go to any of the feedings or shows that they do.
When we got there, we started at the Aquarium. It was nice and they had some cool fish, but it doesn't compare to the Georgia Aquarium. We then headed out to see the African animals.... giraffes and Wild Pigs. The most impressive over there were the African Hunting Dogs which seem to be huge hyenas.
After that, we went into an open rainforest area, filled with tons of little monkeys. We saw a group of them try to make an escape. They were close enough that you could touch them. We walked around a little more and decided to have an early lunch. We had decided to make a picnic out of all of the stuff we had bought from the Borough Market the day before. That was a good choice because everything was delicious.
After that, we went around to everything else. Meerkats, Otters, an open butterfly aviary. We especially enjoyed the penguins and waited to see them be fed by the trainers.
After that, we saw a little show that had trained parrots, skunks, lemurs and a huge owl. We then walked around and saw the tigers, spider monkeys, a couple of reindeer (you get the idea.... a lot of animals).
We did make it over to the reptile house and it was fun trying to figure out where they filmed the scene for Harry Potter. All in all, we ended up staying there over six hours. We were quite surprised since we didn't really expect for us to stay that long.
After that, we figure we would take in a movie and saw Run Fatboy Run. It was a comedy that won't be released in the states until October. The movie was funny, and it was set in London so it was fun see places around town that we'd been before. Also, we could relate to the movie very much, since he is training for a marathon. Made us think about doing it again, we haven't talked about it since.
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