About half of the Rolling Hills Zoo experience is a wildlife museum with 64,000 square feet of taxidermy/dioramas and a few animatronic human robots throughout. We went to the museum after the zoo and we were just about the only people there. I thought a lot of the dioramas were super dramatic and exaggerated, bordering on tacky, but I was impressed nonetheless. I always enjoy visiting natural history museums for the first time and seeing things I’ve never seen done in taxidermy/displays before (I love that lion being pierced by the water buffalo’s horn, and the zebra with its mouth inside the hyena’s mouth, and the piebald fawn!).

Tomorrow we’re heading to our rental house in Lucas with friends for the long weekend! I’ve been looking forward to it for months and I can’t wait. Yesterday we finished booking a two-week stay in Portland in July to spend hopefully snagging jobs; the person who owns our house is selling it and wanted to get it on the market as early as he could, so we agreed to move out a month earlier than planned D: Scary times coming up soon!

Also, here is Nathaniel’s video from our time in New Orleans in March. Lotttsss of me waving. Maybe one of these days he will finish the Oregon Coast video…