Madison (avec Jessie)

On Tuesday, I drove down to Madison to visit my best friend Jessie! I picked her up from her work, the Concourse Hotel downtown, and we went and got sandwiches at Milio's, the one I worked at in 2007 on Regent Street. It was a beautiful day, sunny and 70s, so we decided to eat outside. We drove over to Vilas Park and ate our sandwiches by the water. The wind was blowing pretty hard and our sandwiches nearly flew off the table! But we spent a good 20 minutes catching up and chowing down until deciding to go walk around the zoo. This photo was taken when we were eating lunch:

The zoo is under a bit of construction, and many of the habitats have cha

nged since I was there last. We saw my favorite exhibits though, the big cats and the penguins! There is a new lion cub at the zoo and he was cute to watch. He kept trying to play with his parents (who were uninterested) and he was practicing his pouncing (like Simba does with Mufasa in The Lion King). Lots of people were standing by watching him when we arrived and were still standing there as we walked off.

Afterward, we drove around and reminisced about our past lives in Madison, remembering stories as we drove past familiar places. A friend of ours is getting married this summer and they just bought a house, so Jessie and I drove by there so I could see it. Turns out it is not too far from our old house (which is up the street from her parents' house) and it looks very nice from the outside. She hasn't moved in yet since they are not getting married for a few months, but I think she has been planning and buying things for the move.

We then met up with Jessie's boyfriend and put our toes in the water at the swimming pool by his apartment. I ended up driving back relatively early, but it was a good thing because I didn't see (or hit!) any deer!