Yokohama | Japanese Crackers

For a weekend with nothing planned, we sure were busy. Today we went to the hottest zoo in all of Japan. I swear the temperature was in the mid 50′s at one point… luckily it was so humid that there was no need to sweat — there was enough moisture in the air to soak you! Fun times, indeed.

Despite the sweltering heat, we managed to have a good time. Layla was as busy as a beaver as she bunny-hopped from cage to cage. I promised myself I wouldn’t make any bad animal jokes if I wrote a blog about today… guess a leopard really can’t change his spots, eh?

When we first got in the zoo, the first thing we saw was an elephant in the trees. A fake elephant. But a scary one — at the very sight of it, Layla ran to me crying asking to leave. Even after I carried her over to pet the statue she continued to cry. Courage, thy name is certainly not Layla. Luckily that was the only real setback as she soon got into the whole zoo thing. She enjoyed seeing all the animals, but had an especially soft spot for a couple monkeys, the penguins and seals, and the green polar bear.

The highlight of the day was the end, though, as at the exit there was a water wall. Seeing as it was still a balmy 42 degrees when we were leaving it seemed only fitting to let her touch the wall… and touch it she did. It was lucky we had a change of clothes for her — she ended up soaked from head to toe, but happy as a clam.