Countdown to Noon at the Zoo

Here’s a layout I did at Crop Connection  in Pearl, MS in January 2007 — Countdown to Noon at the Zoo.  It was the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans’ family New Year’s Eve celebration and if you’re ever in New Orleans for Ney Year’s with kids, you should go.  There were party hats, a chocolate milk toast, and music.  Oh, and there are animals at the zoo, too.  January is a great time for the zoo because it’s usually a good temperature, the animals are happy it’s not hot, and the kids don’t get hot and ask for snowballs and icecream every 20 minutes.  And avoid the bird area — it smells seriously bad and it creeps me out, but then again, I don’t like birds.  The bears are awesome, the big cats, and the elephants are the best.  Whatever you do, don’t go to any zoo during elephant mating season.  We made that mistake in Calgary and that’s an image burned forever in my mind.  I can’t write about it here, it’s too disgusting for words.  Personally, I don’t want to see any animal mate, but good grief — the largest land animal — I can’t say any more, I just got a sick feeling and I want to think about something good like Katie’s birthday cake all lonely in the fridge.