Company Picnic

Apparently I don't really give a fuck about dates on these damn posts, because I forget to put them in. Oh well. It's not a huge deal anyway.

Now that little bit of randomness is out of the way.. onto the blog post! I was sitting here trying to think about something to write about. Well, there is nothing kink related on my mind and I can't find a "journal prompt" that is catching my eye... so this is going to be rather day to day type shit. I apologize in advance.

The company I work for does this "picnic" thing every year. It's not really a picnic, although there is food. They always do it somewhere that has entertainment of a sort. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's something. For instance the first year I worked there they took everyone to a baseball game, paid for everyone's tickets and had lunch catered. Master and I don't like baseball, but we thought it might be a good time. So we went. We were wrong. Baseball is just as boring watching it in the stands as it is watching it on TV. Yeah. We didn't stay long but we figured it was free, the only thing we spent was gas money.

This year they are having it at the zoo. Awesome! Master and I love the zoo. They are paying for parking, admission and are having a catered lunch. After we eat Master and I can roam around the zoo by ourselves. It's not like a "the group has to stay together" thing. Nope. They just hand us the tickets and say "Do what you want."

It's this Sunday and Master and I are hoping to go, but we're not sure how hot it is going to be and also how much gas will be in the car at that point. It's not exactly close to home. It's about 45 minutes to an hour away. But we said if we do go, we could act like it's a date. A free date at that. Get free food, enjoy walking around together, look at the animals.. you know. Fun stuff.

I know that walking around a zoo as a "date" makes it sound like we're 13, but Master and I really love the zoo. So there. *grins*

Day at the Zoo

Today Master and I got up before our alarm went off. So I turned that off and we started getting ready. It's about an hour drive out to his daughter's house, so we left about 15 minutes early so we could put gas in the car and check the air in the tires.

Once that was done, we were on our way.

We got there a few minutes early, but no one seemed to mind. The traffic wasn't nearly as bad as we thought it was going to be. We picked her up, hopped in the car, and then headed to the county zoo. We had to drop her off at 4pm, instead of 3:30pm, but amazingly it took us that entire time to see everything at the zoo! It didn't seem that large the last two times we were there.

But I think part of it is because we actually went into all the buildings, stopped for food a couple of times (mainly snack type food) and even sat down by a pond there for a little while. Master had brought His camera with and snapped some pictures along the way. Him and His daughter went on the sky lift. They only take two people to a seat, so I stayed on the ground as I didn't want to sit by myself on one of them, or next to a stranger. But I enjoyed myself and just watched some of the animals and then took a picture of them on the sky lift as they were coming back towards me.

I have to say that my favorite exhibits consisted of the tigers (duh) and the aquarium. I could have sat there and watched the sharks glide gracefully through the water for hours. But we didn't spend much time in there, and I didn't want to stray to far from Master and His daughter. His daughter was bouncing back and forth between exhibits quite a bit.

Unfortunately, mainly in the buildings, there were a few times where my claustrophobia kicked up, and I had to quickly walk away before I started to have a panic attack. At those times, I didn't say anything, I just walked to a less crowded part of the building and waited.

I was honestly amazed that we were able to fill the entire afternoon at the zoo. Everyone had a really good time. When we dropped her back off, we gave everyone hugs and then Master and I headed home.

We chilled for an hour or so, and then went out to dinner. Master and I had a lot of fun joking around while we ate. I have recently discovered how much I love the strawberry lemonades at Applebees. Yummy!

When we got home I took my bath and read for a while, then Master allowed me to take an hour nap. Now the only sucky thing is that my neck is bothering me.

My shoulder feels better. My mom had given me some new pain relieving cream that warms up, I think it's made by Tylenol. So earlier today, after we got back from the zoo Master put it on. It felt so damn good. I used to have a prescription strength version of that kind of topical cream that worked wonders. But since I don't got to pain management doctors anymore, I don't have the stuff. I had actually forgotten until today how much that sort of thing can help. After this stuff runs out maybe I'll pick up some Icy Hot or Aspercreme.