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Slept in this morning, it was my third day in Denver. I wasn’t out of bed until 8am. I woke up once in the night wondering where I was, it took me about a minute to remember I was in a hotel room. I barely managed to catch the complimentary breakfast before it closed. I was lucky to find this place online at this site , a day before I came to Denver. I’m meeting an old friend of mine from high-school, who lives in Fort Collins, at the Denver Zoo by 10:30am. She wanted me to meet her little girl, which I haven’t seen since she was born.

We both thought that meeting at the Zoo by 10:30 would be easy and we could also have time to enjoy parts of the City Park before we entered the zoo. But, we were totally wrong, by the time I got to the Zoo and it was really packed. So packed that the parking garage was closed because it was full. Luckily, I saw someone leave, so I pulled in to that parking spot. My friend and her daughter weren’t so lucky. They ended up having to park far away and walk quite a distance to the Zoo entrance. It was 11am by the time we met at the front of the Zoo. After officially meeting her daughter and many exchanges of how much we missed each other, we decided to give up on the City Park and just go into the Zoo.

The Denver Zoo, fortunately is very huge, so it didn’t seem that crowded inside. The zoo has some very nice outdoor and indoor exhibits. I really appreciated the indoor exhibits, because of the snowy weather and I’m sure the desert animals did too! We saw half of the zoo and decided it was time to have lunch. Afterwards, we continued along through the zoo and hopped on the carousel and the train before her daughter fell asleep. We finished up the zoo while she slept, including seeing the Lorikeet exhibit. It was near the end of the day, so the birds weren’t interested in feeding from the cups of nectar all the little children offered. It was funny to watch all the children still try to feed the birds. They would stick their cup right up in the Lorikeets face, and they didn’t give up even after a few bird bit back.

By the time 5pm rolled around, her daughter woke up and I walked them both back to their car, I would’ve drove them, but I didn’t have a child’s seat. We decided to meet over at my hotel and grab a bite to eat before they had to drive back to Fort Collins. During dinner we both agreed to stay in better touch with each other, and for the life of us, we couldn’t figure out why we were lapse in the first place.