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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

29 Years

This year, my birthday was one of the most interesting birthdays I've ever had. It actually might qualify as THE MOST interesting birthday I've ever had. On October 24th, I was sitting in a cafe in Grindleford, with my friends Grace and Allison, and Matt, who is Time for God's equivalent of our Site Coordinator. Grace and Allison and I had just gotten off the train from Manchester Picadilly, and we were waiting for the rest of our YAGM group to arrive on the next train. So we were sitting in the cafe, and I was knitting a scarf, because that's a thing that I do, and Matt noticed that my phone case was a penguin, and the subject came around to the fact that penguins are one of my favorite animals, and I mentioned that I had never seen a penguin outside of the movies. So Grace and Allison had the idea that we would go to the zoo for my birthday, so that I could see penguins.

At 5:30 a.m. on December 16th, I woke up, and I walked out of my bedroom and there was a card on the table outside of my door. I opened up the card, and it was from my Nuns. They had glued two pictures of puffins on the inside of my card, because they couldn't find any cards with penguins, and so they decided that puffins would do. It was absolutely perfect. I left my house at about 6:30 a.m., and headed to the train station. We went to the Dudley Zoo, because, while Chester Zoo is closer, the penguin exhibit is currently closed at the Chester Zoo, so we went to Dudley. I had a pretty uneventful train trip to Dudley, and when I got off the train, I was greeted by Allison and Annie. Annie's birthday is three days after mine, so we decided to make the celebration about her as well. So then we waited for Grace to arrive, and Grace and Annie both gave me stuffed animal penguins for my birthday, and then we walked to a bus stop, and headed to the zoo. We saw so many different animals at the zoo, and of course the penguins was my highlight, but getting yelled at by the lemurs was pretty interesting, and watching Grace try to make friends with a peacock was just entertaining :)

After we were done walking around the zoo, we went into an area that had indoor seating, and Allison and I taught Grace and Annie to play Cribbage, although without a Cribbage board, which I thought defeated the purpose. I don't think Grace and Annie were impressed with our Cribbage game, but it was still fun. We then headed back to a bus stop, and got to the train station with about 6 minutes to catch our trains, Grace, Allison and I got on the train to Wolverhampton, and Annie got on her train. In Wolverhampton, Grace and I had to change trains, and Allison lives in Wolverhampton, so Allison persuaded us to stand outside the station for a few seconds, so that we coud "Be in Wolverhampton Together." :) Then Grace and I got on our train to Picadilly, and had a completely silent train trip back to Picadilly. We got off of the train, Grace kind of unintentionally walked me to my bus stop, and then she found her way back home. So overall it was a wonderful birthday, and seeing penguins is always better with friends :)

 This lynx was not impressed with us :) 

 This crocodile and the other crocodile were best friends, I'm pretty sure.

 PENGUINS!!!!

 MORE PENGUINS!!!!!!!

 That time that Grace and I spent 10 seconds in Wolverhampton with Allison :) 

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