Rhythm of the Night

Last Saturday i went to the NIGHT SAFARI with Niki (with only one k) and Aymee

And i haven't been for ages ages ages so i was pretty excited

I used to love the night safari because you got to touch snakes and feel their smooth scales and coolness,and i loved the creatures of the night show where they shocked you and pulled a huge boa constrictor from beneath the seat of a 'lady with the nice shoes'

Anyway, we went there after 9 because it was half price (like my dad says: Never resist a good offer)

And after Aymee got this incredible long slurpee in a tube, we went walking around looking at the animals

I loved loved the slow loris, it just sort of crept along with an enormous amount of grace for such a tiny slow creature. It moved incredibly slowly, but it was like every millimeter of movement was entirely and carefully thought over and decided on. (Therefore i conclude that i like slow lorises because of their certainty and thought)

I also adored the flying squirrels that we saw. We actually went into this enclosure with them, so they flew around, leaping and gliding from trees to the walkway, missing us by less than a meter. They were incredible. Every time they flew they portrayed such power and i don't know how to say it. Watching them gave you the satisfaction you feel when you shake a bed sheet and it billows out with that lovely hwooosh sound, or when you lie under a falling blanket.

We also saw bats, which were slightly freaky because they looked very very sweet, wrapped up in their wings and hanging from the roof of the bat cave, and them all of a sudden they'd open their glistening beady eyes and be STARING RIGHT AT YOU, or they'd suddenly fly right past you so quick and so fast and so suddenly

The elephants and giraffes were also amazing, so Majestic and graceful and wonderfully created

I love how giraffes walk, they seem to slightly shiver every step, a tentative kind of walking, and you can see their knees pushing up and you can see the entire transition of weight and it's such a beautiful process and it makes you wonder how they manage to care about their legs when their head is always high up in the sky

Elephants shall forever be my favourites. Their wisdom, amiability, and love for everything-i feel like i could learn a lot from them

One of the best parts of the night was Aymee calling a porcupine a porkypig i don;t know why it sounded so right but so funny at the same time i still laugh when i think about it

I also loved eating that Chinese flat pink thing and hello panda biscuits on the tram (for some reason i used to think the pink thing must be made of meat) with niki and aymee it was a really nice comforting moment of fellowship i don't know i just felt really mellow and comforted then, a kind of i-want-to-wallow-in-you-forever moment

Another moment was finding the blooming flower postcard. It's a card which when you tilt it forward and backward it shows a flower blooming in a kind of time lapse sequence. It's one of the most beautiful things I've seen and i couldn't believe i could carry around a flower that i could constantly make alive, or cause to recede back into it's bud stage. It's fascinating and so of course i bought it

The entire night was enormous fun and so nice to spend with friends i can't believe Aymee will be going back to France she's pretty much part of the class now but thank God Niki will be here and maybe in 2015 we can go to France together and see Aymee again and the French porkpigs :)