Trip to the zoo

9th October, 2011

Today I went to the Minnesota Zoo with some couchsurfers (see photo above). I saw it posted on the Minneapolis Couchsurfing page and thought it sounded fun. There was a fairly international group with representatives from Germany, India, Russia and the US. Luckily one of the girls offered us a lift as buses to the zoo don't run on Sunday. The zoo is nice enough, although not the best one I have been to. Both St. Louis and Omaha's zoos are better I think. The company was nice though. Since I don't know many people in Minneapolis, it was nice to meet up with a few others living here. They were all very friendly.

The zoo was in a few sections. They had a tropical trail, a Russian trail and a Minnesota trail. It was quite fun. I generally enjoy zoos. Afterwards we went to the Mall of America for lunch/dinner. We ate in a noodle place which was pretty good (and cheap enough). We then went to an ice-cream place where they mix ice-cream with a variety of candy bars, cakes etc. This was okay but not great. It was basically like a McFlurry and it cost as much as my lunch for a small cup (which was huge).

While the girls stayed to do some shopping, me and Venkata made our way home. On the way though, I wanted to stop off at a military cemetery. It looked really impressive from the train with thousands of small white headstones. We got off there and talked about cultural differences in how people treat the dead. In the cemetery, I was also reminded of my granny whose 1 year anniversary it is today. I was thinking that she would be happy to see me to be out and about on such a beautiful day.