This picture does not do it justice but this tortoise was HUGE!!! They live about 200 years and weigh 500 pounds. It was about 4 feet long too. Crazy BIG!
My favorite were the Gorillas. I could watch them for hours! Spencer and Charley were long done with them and had moved on and I stayed and watched them for a while. I think they are just so human like. It's fascinating to watch them and see just how similar they are and the things they do that humans do as well. (like how the mother is sleeping and just before that she was rubbing something off her eyelid like we do)
There is a monorail that you can ride too and takes you across the zoo to see more parts of land with animals that you can only see on the monorail. This is where we saw the elephants and tigers!
Such a fun day at the zoo! That night we got a baby-sitter and Spencer took me out to dinner and dessert. It was a perfect night! He had reserved a really nice place in the meat-packing district called "Spice Market". It is owned by the famous chef, Jean Georges, who owns restaurants around the world. The restaurant itself is amazing inside. Most all the decorations, furniture and building itself were imported from around the world. It's an asian-fusion place so there are a lot of things from Thailand. We both got the tasting menu which had 10 courses that they brought out at different times. It was really good and sooo flavorful!
After dinner we went to SoHo for some yummy ice cream! There is a place called "Big Gay Ice Cream" that we have been wanting to try and it did not disappoint! It was so yummy and the crazy thing is that it is soft-serve ice cream. Usually I am not a fan of soft-serve but this stuff is so good. Spencer got the Salty Pimp and I got a pretzel one where they roll the ice cream in salted pretzel bits and then dip the whole thing in chocolate. YUM!! We walked over to Washington Square Park to eat and people watch.
Saturday we went to the Brooklyn Flea Market (another bucket-list item we have been wanting to go to). It's pretty much a glorified second hand store and antique store outside. They have some really cool things and lots of food vendors so we walked around for a bit and then grabbed some food.
Then Sunday rolled around and I was spoiled once more! I woke up to sticky notes all around our apartment with cute things that Spencer had wrote about me! He had gotten up in the middle of the night and put them around the apartment! Super sweet! Then I got to open a few presents while he made me breakfast and that night he made me dinner! It was a fun, relaxing day. We had my favorite bran muffins for breakfast and he tried out a new recipe for dinner. It was a chicken and veggie galette that turned out really really good! I am so grateful for such a sweet and thoughtful husband. He knows that I like to celebrate birthdays and even though he doesn't like to as much.. he still makes it a point to humor me for the day and make me feel special and loved!
