Since moving to Oklahoma, we have been introduced to weather we had never experienced before. On Friday (two days ago), we were talking to Ben and Alyse, who asked about the weather. We told them how a few weeks ago, the weather had gone from highs in the low 20s with wind chills around zero to highs in the 70s in less than a week. They were complaining about the cold weather there in Virginia, but we didn't have much to complain about as Friday was a wonderful day, with highs in the mid 60s and plenty of sunshine.
Then we woke up Saturday to our favorite type of new Oklahoma weather - drizzle (essentially like a mist, or tiny drops of rain). You can't really tell that it's drizzling (if that's like raining) - it just feels like there is a lot of moisture in the air.
Since we hadn't done anything exciting for quite some time (hence the lack of blog posts and boring sentences about being busy with school in my mom's weekly emails), we decided to take a trip to the zoo. Apparently, drizzle is the best weather for going to the zoo if you don't like crowds and prefer to see active animals. There may have been fifty people in the zoo, but we didn't see more than twenty in the few hours that we were there.
The lions were out and about, walking around instead of just lying in the sun like they had been every other time we'd gone to the zoo.
Even though you can't tell from the picture, it's drizzling so that's why Sarah is wearing her hood.
The most entertaining animals of the day, however, were the primates. A few of the gorillas came up and pounded on the glass where we were standing, as if to make faces at the humans for a little role reversal. Then all of a sudden, one of the gorillas charged at another with a scream and its mouth opened wide. The attempted attack didn't last long as the largest gorilla of the group (the one lying down on the rock in the center of the picture) quickly intervened, tackling the attacker and taking some hair out of its back.
If that wasn't enough, we then walked over and watched the chimpanzees scream and chase one another around for quite a while trainers put out the food in their indoor enclosure. We could hear still hear them from a couple hundred yards away as we went to look at the elephants.
Drizzle throughout the day on Saturday combined with an overnight freeze to give us our least favorite new Oklahoma weather when we woke up this morning - ice. We laughed to ourselves about our conversation with Ben and Alyse as we realized that in two days, we had gone from a high in the mid 60s on Friday to a high in the 20s with wind chills around zero and ice covering everything today. Such is life and the weather here in Oklahoma - so go out and enjoy the drizzle while you can.
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