false start

On day 1 of our road trip, Megan and I failed to actually leave New York City, or rent a car, or even leave the house before 11. We woke up with terrible hangovers, and then the house we were going to stay at in Vermont with Ginny turned out to be full of people, and everything just kind of unwound. We decided that instead of going to Newark to pick up our car, we'd have lunch at Roy's and then head up to the Bronx Zoo. By the time we arrived, the zoo was closed, but we snuck in by pretending we desperately wanted to go to the gift shop. Most of the animals had gone inside for the night, which freaked Ginny out a bit. She was worried that the lions were hiding from us so they could pounce from behind a nearby rock or soft-serve ice cream truck. We managed to escape un-mauled, though, and we did see the sea lions, a hilarious little moustachiod monkey, and a flock of flamingos.