The morning got away from me!

Mr. T and I had a fabulous weekend in Montauk, sort of a mini honeymoon. Though we've been together for 7.5 years we only legally tied the knot in August, and haven't had time to go anywhere alone until this weekend. We brought our bikes and cruised around the whole area on Sunday which was actually sunny and not too cold. We even went in the ocean! The whole time we were enjoying our total freedom, eating when we wanted, going where ever whenever, sleeping at odd times, I kept trying to savor the moments. Next year at this time we won't be able to hop on our bikes and just get away from everything for 48 blissful hours!

I think the thing that most worries me is not being able to bike everywhere. It's my main form of exercise and transportation and losing that is pretty upsetting.

This morning a couple freelance projects actually kept me very busy so I haven't been on any search engines! Instead I am including a writing sample I submitted for a job last week. It's to write the annual report and newsletter for a homeless organization and they wanted a writing sample of a kids day at the zoo. I guess they didn't like what I wrote since I haven't heard back but I had fun with it so figure I will post it!

IT was a great day! I had no idea when I woke up this morning that I would get to see a camel - a real live camel! My mom and I don’t get to spend much time together because she is always working and I am always at school, or at after school, or at my babysitters’ house. For some reason she decided this morning to call in sick and we spent the whole day, the whole entire day, at the zoo! We saw monkeys and sea-lions and a walrus but camels have always been my favorite. I told her that when I grow up I want to live in Egypt and ride a camel to work.

My friend Alex has been to the zoo and told me about it, but I didn’t really believe him that a giraffe is taller than a basketball hoop. Now I can tell people about it, they really are that tall, it’s crazy. I had never seen so many animals in one place. Where we live we cant even have a dog or a cat and the people at the zoo get to have monkeys and camels! I wish we could live in the zoo. Though some parts of it were stinky! But mostly it was beautiful, no really, there were like trees and flowers and little paths that grown-ups couldn’t fit on. I never knew how big an elephant was either – it was huge.

People always call me monkey boy because I like to do flips on the monkey bars but I watched the monkeys for a long time, and they were really funny - especially when one of them stole a banana from the other one and then they started hitting each other - but I don’t think that’s me. I’m pretty sure that I am a camel. Sometimes I go a whole day without peeing, no really, just ask my babysitter, she thinks there’s something wrong with me. But then I pee in bed at night and mom starts to cry and then I cry so then I try to hold it in forever - like a camel.

Mom was in such a good mood that she even bought me an ice cream and a camel tattoo. I told her I am never going to take a bath again so the tattoo can be on my arm forever and ever and I will never forget our day at the zoo. She smiled but put water in the bathtub and made me get in.