Winging it in... Boston

Whohohoho, the future is looking a whoooole lot better.

Again, this weekend has certainly been a weekend of two halves, and different experiences. Saturday evening was a “Mystic Meg” party, or more accurately a gathering of people which included a psychic who was available to do a reading for each of us. I am more than a little cynical about these things, and I would love to say I joined in with an open mind, but that would, I am afraid be a little bit of a lie. I found that I was giving away quite a lot of information, although not as much as she would have liked and not getting a whole lot back.

It turns out am incredibly perceptive and very able to pick up on what people are thinking and feeling, in fact some might say (and one person did) that I have some psychic tendencies (that was psychic, not psycho). I did stop laughing long enough to tell her that I didn't even know what people where thinking or feeling when they verbalized their thoughts and I was within earshot. (It was at this point that she told me I was funny- it was somewhat of a theme for the session.)

Another bit of good news- I am going to get some money, a significant amount, in the next three months. Either a promotion and a pay rise or a windfall amount, I am fairly certain I know it isn't going to be a promotion or a pay rise, so bring on the windfall amount. I can go buy myself lots of presents. (Because obviously the law of averages means she must have been right at some point, and I pick this point :))

She did do quite well on remembering facts I told her and she regurgitated back at me at some point and in some form... she asked about my immediate family (mentioned my sisters and brother) then her next comment was, I'm seeing a girl, possibly a sister who is a bit different to you in her attitude to things. Well, you remembered that for all of 5 seconds, and I have two of them there has to be a difference somewhere! Oh, I am also a bit like my father and a bit like my mother- shocker!

We talked a bit about Boston and how long I had lived here, and the places I had lived in before. Then she decided I liked travel and would probably be somewhere different shortly, maybe for a vacation or possibly longer.

She was spot on with her comment that I like shopping, and particularly jewelry. (So nothing to do with the Links watch, Tiffany necklace, tiffany bangles and the earrings I was wearing then- plus the regular rings?) This did lead on to another "funny" moment.

her: I'm just wondering if you'd like children?

me: no

her: it could be animals, do you like animals, you have lots of pets?

me: no. I don't even have a pot plant. I don't like things I need to look after.

her: you are soooo funny.

It turns out I am very funny.

In all fairness to her, she did manage to get some things right- but I could have just told her and saved her the effort of thinking about it. After 25 minutes of my yes/no answers she summed me up by telling me I put up barriers, and deflected when asked questions, didn't like to share my personal life, didn't enjoy being the center of attention and enjoyed my own company more than other people. I defy logic- her words. I could have told her all of that at the start. I was also very uncomfortable, awkward and spent 25 minutes saying yes and no, so I think even my super perceptive self could have worked that out. Not that I am at all cynical. In fact I am thinking that we should have another evening of psychic fun and I could go first, rather than last- just to test out whether it was me, or if she was just tired…

Sunday saw a trip to the zoo, at Franklin Park. When fully open the zoo contains more than 220 species of animals housed mainly in themed exhibit areas. However, being only the beginning of March they are still on winter opening hours and some animals have been “put away for the winter”

The first stop on the tour was an African Wild Dog exhibit, this is not part of any particular exhibit and just happened to be the first thing that was spotted by the Giraffe entrance. Unfortunately there were no giraffes to be seen, 1. Because it was a dog exhibit and 2. Because tit is winter so they aren’t even in their own enclosure at the minute.

The Tropical Forest is a big building roofed by a huge dome. The building mimics the animals' natural environment with streams, moats, faux-rock structures, hidden fences and barriers. The exhibit includes gorillas, ocelots, capybara, tapirs, vulture, pygmy hippopotamus, and warthogs. This exhibit was also undergoing renovations and I was a little concerned that some animals might escape. The gorillas, as expected were the star attraction, and even sibling fighting couldn’t put people off, in fact it probably helped people identify with them!

A lot of the larger animals seemed to be hidden away, or I was being particularly blind. I didn’t manage to find the lions or the tigers, despite the information saying that they had them, and I know a few things were inside for the winter.

Nonetheless, the gift shop was good. It was nice to be outside in the fresh air, the weather was fairly pleasant and I passed a nice afternoon wandering around, seeing kangaroos, zebras, ostriches and ibex. I also loved the fact that as an adult I seemed able to climb over rope barriers without being told off. I was quite careful about checking around for zookeepers first tho.