Saturday June 2, 2007
Since we both have memberships, it seemed like a great way to spend a few hours this afternoon.
Zane was thrilled.
Zane was especially excited to see the new Penguin exhibit. Penguins are his favorite animals right now because he still loves the “Tacky the Penguin” books. The new exhibit features Humboldt penguins, a small warm water penguin (I didn’t know there were warm weather penguins before I started hearing about he exhibit). It was neat, but it was smaller than I was expecting after all they hype. The penguins themselves were smaller too.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle…
the girls held hands for a while, très cute!
Tunnel under the water where you can see giant fish swim by.
The bird was not supposed to be there and a zookeeper came by to retrieve him as we got ready to move on. Zane was pretty impressed.
Leaving the Orangutans, there is a statue of an Orangutans that totally captivated Zora for some reason. She stood there, pointing, showing her Italian blood with many dramatic arm movements as she was telling me a story of some kind. It was so cute, and so earnest, and I would have loved to have understood her.
LOL @ the runaway (flyaway?) parrot, Kieran went to the zoo last week and all he could talk about were the naked mole rats and the naked baboon behinds, LOL!
Whoopee! I love zoos. Looks like a really fun day.
Penguins are still my DP’s favorite animal. My crazy Uncle Dan has a big blue parrot like the one Zane is standing with, it’s name is Molly and it says things like “Molly want a cracker,” and “Poor Molly” and it even makes coughing noises (it’s first owner was a chain-smoker) and snores (my Uncle Dan sleeps on the couch because he snores so loudly).