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Louis's Photos from 4-17-99

I went to visit Michelle again in St. Louis. This time, we went to visit the butterfly house on Saturday, and the St. Louis Zoo on Sunday.

Butterfly houses are a lot of fun. They are essentially huge greenhouses where butterflies are flying about freely. They are warm and humid, just the way the butterflys like it. They have "airlock" style doors to keep the butterflies inside as people move in and out. I took a bunch of pictures, but I only kept the best ones. Some of these are practically perfect! Unfortunately, I can't remember the names of any of the butterflies.

Very nice picture of a black and white butterfly feeding from purple flowers.
This picture came out perfect!
Michelle in the butterfly house.
An irridescent Blue butterfly. (The irridescence does not show in this picture.)
A mostly black butterfly
Another awesome picture! A black, grey, and white butterfly with a little pink on its wings, sitting in front of pink flowers.
A huge moth, hatching out of its chrysalis.
One of the butterfly keepers is removing the newly hatched butterflys from the hatching area. The butterflies are shipped as chrysalises, then hung up here to hatch. The butterflies are not allowed to reproduce in the butterfly house, so that the countries to which the butterflies are native can stay in the butterfly selling business instead of destroying butterfly habitat. By the way, that is NOT Michelle.
A black, blue, and white butterfly.
Michelle looking beautiful.
A black butterfly with white stripes and dark orange wingtips.
A black and red butterfly. (Darth Maul butterfly? :)
A brown butterfly with lots of eyespots.
A black, grey, and white butterfly with pink spots.
This was a really wierd experience. Is there any completely imaginary place that you know well (maybe because you read many stories about it)? What would it be like to suddenly find that that you were standing at that place in real life? Michelle took me to this cute little town to look at the shops. I saw this little park with a band stand that you could walk under and was totally floored. I couldn't get a really good picture, but this place looks just like The West Corner of the Park on FurryMUCK!

Sunday, we went to the St. Louis Zoo. Again, I took many pictues of the animals, but many didn't come out well. Plus, I don't even remeber the specific names of many of them! Here are the best ones.

Here is Michelle in front of the water-squirting elephant fountain near the entrance to the zoo.
This is me as an otter.
This is a real river otter.

The Lorikeet Aviary in the children's zoo was the best part. This large walk-in aviary was full of lorikeets. They have beautiful, brightly colored plumage. Outside, you could buy little cups of nectar for the lorikeets to sip. All you had to do was hold the cup in your hand, and they would land on you and lap it up right in front of your eyes. In fact, the birds were sure you had food for them, whether you did or not, and they'd land on you and start searching for it. They were not afraid of humans at all! They'd bump into you while flying and they'd screach LOUDLY at each other right by your ears and they'd chew on your fingers or whatever they took a liking to. It was much more fun that watching some rare bird hide in the back of a cage. :)

When we fist entered the aviary, one of the lorikeets landed on my hat. It was cute until it stated to nibble it. :)
Michelle has all the lorikeets she wants.
A closeup. (A little too close.)
Another attempt at a closeup.
Here I am feeding a lorikeet.
Then another lorikeet flew up and decided to whisper sweet nothings in my ear while trying to nibble on my earlobe. Ack!
A closeup of a lorikeet trying to eat Michelle's finger.
These are fennecs.
This peacock decided to start showing off for a female. The humans were happy for the show too, but the peacock blocked the doorway to one of the exibits so no one could get in or out!
Feeding time for the sea lions!
By the magic vested in me by the power of Photoshop, I hereby bring this snow leopard ouside of his cage!
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