To be honest, I don’t really remember why Tim and I decided to start going to the zoo more regularly. Neither of us had been there in years, but within a couple of visits, we’d decided to get a dual membership and make a regular thing out of it.  Our membership began in September 2011 and, unbeknownst to us at the time, an amazing little miracle happened less than a month later – an event which would turn out to affect and change me more than I could have ever predicted at the time.  Hudson the polar bear cub was born.

I know, I know – how could something so unrelated to my every day life have such a profound effect on me? I have no idea.  But I’m going to do my best to explain it here. Because, you see, I sort of fell in love with this ridiculous…