It was my sisters . . . 9th? Maybe 11th birthday. Our family decided to make a trip up to Portland so that we could spend the day at OMSI in celebration of Abi's birth. So that's what we did. And it ended up not being as fun for us as we thought it would be. Luckily, the zoo happened to be right next door, so we decided to spontaneously adventure to the zoo instead. Now, my sisters birthday is at the end of November, so as you can imagine, it was quite rainy that day. So rainy, in fact, that there was only 1-2 other family's at the zoo that day. That's significant. Anyways, we adventured through the zoo in the rain as a family and had a smashing good time together. It was nice having the zoo nearly all to ourselves. As our time there ended we found ourselves in the Aviary, which is where a bunch of birds were. Basically what it is is a replica of an African rainforest, where you get to walk through this lush surrounding with bunches of different birds nesting and just doing their thing. It was lovely. The birds were unusually quiet & lacking in energy, so it was nice and peaceful. Until I got ahold of the situation. I thought I saw a kookaburra (which doesn't make sense, cause they're native to Australia and New Guinea). I had a thing for kookaburras, you see. I found them super awesome. Have you ever heard a kookaburra sound? Basically, they're just awesome.
Anyways, I thought I saw one, so I was like, "I'mma speak your language!" So I did. I made a kookaburra call (which I had practiced a bunch at home, so I was kind of excited for the chance to actually use it. How often do you get the opportunity to use a kookaburra call?!) I kid you not, as soon as I started making that kookaburra call, every bird in that aviary went CRAY. Chirping, tweeting, cackling, cooing, flying, flapping, swooping, dive bombing, they went cray. One got like an inch away from "gifting" me from above. That silent peaceful room turned into a mad house within a matter of seconds. It was AWESOME!
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