There is indeed a sunset!

And soon enough Winona and Julie go to bed.

She's in bed in the morning, this time, and comes downstairs yawning at 11:30.

"Morning, kiddo," says Julie. "Lunch is leftovers sandwiches." Chicken and mushrooms on a sandwich, voilà.

Food: nom.

Does Julie want to do anything today? She might go by the bike place if not.

"I was imagining going to the zoo but I don't know if you'd rather put that off and go look at bikes."

Ooh, no, zoo is better.

"Cool. It's not too long a flight, you up to fly there?"

Yeah, sure.

So they fly to the Franklin Park Zoo, and Julie buys them tickets, and in they go. There are animals!

There are! Dusk likes the animals a lot. And has a surprising amount of commentary on what they're up to and how they feel.

"Animals don't express their feelings very much like humans do, I'm not sure you and I can guess much detail," Julie says.

That seems false? She's not guessing, she can see it the same way she sees it for people. It's a little easier if anything, actually.

"I don't know what specifically you're looking at or how to tell what mood a rhino's in but I've heard people make mistakes thinking they can do that," shrugs Julie.

Huh. She's pretty sure not, but okay.

Anyway. Gosh, ostriches are funny-looking.

"They are! Flightless birds in general are funny-looking."

And so they continue through the zoo. Dusk stops commenting so much on the animals but doesn't seem less enthusiastic otherwise.

Julie's favorite exhibit is the red pandas!

Red pandas are cool, but she likes the tamarins better.

Tamarins are also great.

The zoo closes. "Let's surprise Winona at work and go out to dinner," says Julie.

Okay!

Winona is surprised! They go out for seafood. There are various soups, on the more edible scale of things.

She examines the menu and orders the third thing from the soup list.

That would be the crab bisque. Winona gets trout and Julie gets swordfish. There are also rolls on the table.

Rolls are safe enough. She takes one.

They are very good rolls! Her bisque is also good. Apparently today at Winona's work the new guy did a ton of work that had already been done because the surnames of the people the work was about were too similar.