Awwwwww…
Sleepy sloth!
Sleepy, hungry sloth!
And we got to pet it!
Oh, yeah!
That was an awesome day… and look, he is holding his own arm like a tree branch.
Don’t worry, I have more sloth pictures coming.
Two or three more posts worth.
A happy girl and a happy sloth!
Yes, we made Mollie cry… and yes, her boyfriend is filming it… for their new YouTube show… the one I already put a link to in an earlier post about her exciting surprise birthday trip to the animal sanctuary. So, what animal made Mollie cry with joy?
What animal made this the ‘best birthday ever’?
A sloth.
Mollie loves sloths.
And she… we… got to pet one.
Now don’t worry, this first post is more about my daughter than it is about the sloth.
These are what the Hollywood movie types call ‘reaction shots’.
My kid, who is now no longer a kid, I guess, petting a sloth that is munching on some cucumber.
It doesn’t get much better than that for a dad.
Oh yeah, feeding some porcupines!
Baby porcupine!!!
Okay, we are getting close to the end of the photos from our daughter Mollie’s 18th birthday surprise visit to an animal sanctuary. Coming up in the next set of posts is the animal that made Mollie cry with joy.
Mmmmm… cauliflower… the albino broccoli…
Porcupines love to eat, and they eat pretty fast. They also sit on their butts, and it is almost too adorable.
I know, they are technically rodents, but they look like fat little bears!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Too bad you can’t pick them up and cuddle them.
I love their little hands!
I mean, I watch the nature channels, and go to the zoo, and go out into the wild… and I still didn’t know.
They are quite good at climbing as well.
And their teeth, it turns out, are bright orange… from oxidization… which is basically rust.
But yeah, it turns out that porcupines are adorable.
Maybe it is because I never got so close to them before… or maybe it is the way they sit up like fat little dogs and hold food in their little hands while they cram it into their little faces.
All I know is that we had a great time getting to know them during Mollie’s surprise trip to the animals sanctuary. No, I’m not photobombing. I had to cut my wife… and most of me… out of the picture, because she still doesn’t want to be in the blog.
The porcupines don’t mind being in the blog.
I think they know how cute they are.
Okay, one more post about the porcupines, and then we get to the animal that made Mollie cry with joy.
This is Zeus, another of the animals we met when we took Mollie to an animal rescue center in Los Angeles for her special 18th birthday surprise.
There is my daughter, Mollie, on the right, and the nice girl who gave us our special tour, and introduced us to all the animals. As we were getting ready to leave, our guide said she had one more special animal we could meet… and owl named Zeus. Mollie lit up again as something clicked in her head. She started asking about stars in the owl’s eyes, and I got confused.
None of us knew that there was a famous owl that lived as this animal sanctuary, but Mollie actually follows Zeus on Instagram. Zeus is completely blind, and there is something about his eyes, a byproduct of the blindness. Zeus has stars in his eyes.
Don’t get too excited about these pictures, because I didn’t manage to capture this phenomenon with my camera. You have to Google Zeus, and look at some of the pictures on the internet… it is crazy.
If you take a good closeup in the right light, there is a constellation of stars in Zeus’s eyes.
He is a beautiful little owl, with splendid feathers, and we all got to pet him.
But you should really Google Zeus the owl.
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