I wish I could come, but I can’t be there early enough. I can’t blow off my Sunday school students. If it was on Saturday, or was starting around noon, then I could meet up with you all. Well, I will be there in spirit. I went once several years ago, when the Komodo dragon was visiting. Big lizard!
**Horseflesh, if you can stop in to the cafe before the trip, I could have your pie, and Halloween cookies for the kids.
I said the kids, the rest of you stop drooling! Oh all right, I could have a couple dozen for the adult Dopers.
I can do that Baker. Do you work Sunday morning?
Have we pegged a time to meet up? Should we shoot for 9 am and then wait for stragglers (which could be me for all I know, depends on the ponies)?
Why not join in at noon, Baker?
No, Horseflesh, I don’t work Sunday morning, I have to teach Sunday School. I wouldn’t be able to get away until about 10:30 AM, and then make the drive to the zoo in KC. That’s why you guys would already have started.
I work M-F, sometimes Saturday, I go in no later than 5:45 AM(rather late for a baker actually) and get out when the work is done. If you want to call to be sure I am there before coming by email me for the phone number, or just call the library and have them pass you on to the cafe.
Wikkit, I’m not sure I would be able to find all of you. That zoo is darned big, and even if we had a plan to me, well, plans and such go wrong. Let me think about it. I would like to see the place again. I liked the warthogs best last time, Pumbaa covered in slimy mud!
misstee I want a goodie bag!
I’m a kid, honest!
:looks at driver’s license:
See? It says I’m 9 years old.
Well, folks, I found out tonight that my pumkin dealer is now out of business. Sorry, I won’t be bringing extra pumkins like I’d planned.
Can’t wait to see you all!
::dark figure in an alleyway::
“Pssst, hey lady. You lookin’ fer punkins? I gots punkins. All kinds. These are fresh from the patch, not from the back of a truck. How many you want?”
BTW, Baker, there’s an email swimming against the Internet current towards your inbox now.
OK guys, I have received two emails from doper parents.
I am only making 7 kiddie goodie bags, and a few doper goodie bags. If I need more, y’all need to be letting me know as I am buying the stuff to make the surprise things for the lil dopettes on Friday.
Damn the luck sperfur, your pumpkin dealer runnin out on you, leaving you high and dry.
I’m jonesin’. Hook me up?
I’ll definitely be there - we’re now all done torturing undergrads with midterms, and so there’s nothing standing between me and the zoo!
Wikkit am I picking you up at the crack of dawn on Sunday? ( I won’t be getting dressed until half way to our destination) Or would you like to meet in Jefferson?
How many grow up doper goodie bags do I need?
I need a goodie bag!
You know my luck with the ladies. If I’m within reach of Dawn’s crack on Sunday morning, I’m staying there.
In the real world, is there going to be space with the misstee sprouts?
I’d love a goodie bag!
Did I ever tell you my name?
Its MISTY DAWN!
I only have three kids, of course there is going to be room for you, I would never leave you behind!
We will find room for you, Wikkit. We’re taking two cars.
misstee, was that simulpost as good for you as it was for me?
It better have been good for Wikkit, that’s all I’ve got to say… 
It was soooo good for me, I am quivering now.
And apparently Wikkit is speechless. My work here is done…