Wild Animal "Peck"

Here's Dick again with his review of our day:

This morning while Tom joined a group of Europeans who work/worked at Cymer to go mountain biking, and Conni went to church, we hung out, read and used the internet.

Nancy and Conni packed a picnic lunch and we loaded the car and set out to the Wild Animal Park.

The major event in the huge park was the tram ride, our driver was Alex, a young man of Japanese descent with a great line of patter. He was both informative and entertaining. It is great to look off across the valley and view various herds of African and Asian antelope, deer, giraffes, etc.

After a picnic lunch we visited the Lorikeet aviary and had our only injury. One of the lorikeets became jealous when Nancy was feeding another and so it took a chunk out of her hide. The keepers assured Nan that all the birds were inspected and were disease free. [To see a lorikeet, see link above]

We also enjoyed the gorilla exhibit and the lion areas but got tired and were ready for our tour of Cymer and Tom's lab.

We discovered that a lab at Cymer looks just like a lab at MIT/UofM/U
Dub. We also got to see what the heck an excimer laser looks like. We now know where Tom is when he goes to work even if we still don't know what the devil he does.

Dinner was grilled steaks, beef and salmon, with sweet corn and Tom's Famous Margaritas.

We are happy for Chip that Pittsburgh is going to the Super Bowl.