Well I've finally made it. I've come such a long way this summer, It's been an incredible ride and it's only just now really getting revved up. I'm in Minnesota, interning at a wonderful little zoo, And I think I can finally get back to my blog again, and seriously add to it. I have internet access again and a comfortable place to write, and little else to do to distract me or divert me away from focusing on constructive activities. I am overwhelmed by my experiences these first two days on the job. It's a busy day, maintaining a zoo full of wild animals, and it's been incredible. Yesterday I fed the deer, elk and bison and clean and water the raptor pens, the rest of the day was getting better acquainted with the area, and got some eployment paperwork done, today was very busy, cleaning, feeding, watering, medicating and maintaining the farm animal area, cleaning and changing out the mulch in the porcupine and groundhog pens, getting more acquainted with the area, feeding the otters and treating their water, feeding all the raptors, giving the bear her chow, feeding/watering the badger and prairie dogs, and closing up. It's all so much I can hardly even remember it all, and I know this doesn't make for very good reading, but I'm just keeping record. I wasn't able to do this at Alligator River with no internet or even damn place to sit and write. At the end of this internship I hope to have good record of all this. I have found paradise.