Credo Zoo day

This week and next week Credo is closed. Tomorrow we're going away on staff retreat, to work out how we're going to manage to all keep working together for another year. Next week we'll be doing training. It's really nice to be having a break from doing lunch, because stuff has been really full on the last two months, and there hasn't been much time for a rest at all. A lot of us are sick. (I had influenza really bad last week.)
Today we went to Melbourne Zoo with Credo team. A lot of the enclosures were very nice, but as I said last time I went to the Zoo, some of the enclosures are actually quite awful. They really don't have enough space for animals like tigers or leopards.


This is the psychadelic meerkat video:

Yoga with the elephants

At lunch on Friday, Maureen had a whole heap of free tickets to The Melbourne Zoo which she'd been given, and she gave me two. They had to be used today, and there was going to be 'yoga with the elphants' in the morning.
So this morning me and Ray caught the train out to The Zoo, and indeed there was a yoga class, and they brought an elephant out to take part in the exercises. Was a bit strange. I don't know much about yoga at all, but I don't see why you would get an animal to take part in a spiritual exercise that it probably doesn't understand.
After that, spent a few hours wandering around watching the animals, and trying to avoid all the noisy kids and their noisy parents.


I don't think I'd been to The Zoo since about 1998, and I saw it fairly differently today. I didn't like seeing the bigger animals like the lions and tigers and seals in their little enclosures. Seemed like they'd be pretty bored spending their whole time there, and not even getting to hunt their food like they would in the wild. Was talking to Maureen about it, and she reckons it's okay because we and the animals are all one. She thinks the animals choose to live in The Zoo, because they're becoming extinct, and they want to stir people's consciousness.