The Zoo: Elephants, Tigers and Kangaroos!

I went to the zoo today for the umpteenth time with my second son. Number 2 enjoyed himself in a grand fashion. I'm still undecided as to which he enjoyed more - the zoo or the ride to and from with his buddies! All the way there, those three four year old children laughed, yelled, screamed, cried, talked, screamed, touched, slapped, picked, screamed, asked questions (1,000,000 questions), told stories, screamed, pretended to be animals, talked, screamed (did I mention SCREAMED?)!!!!! In short, they had a wonderful time enroute to the zoo.

Once we arrived, we proceeded to visit the different animals. We found the Grizzly bears out and about even though they were a bit thin. We did see one sea lion where there are normally six or eight or so. We saw myriads of birds and snakes and the like. The gorillas would not come out to play so we didn't see not one gorilla. For that matter, I didn't see any tigers, hippo's, rhino's (I don't think they have one), one snake that was very well camoflauged, or very many monkeys. In fact, the monkeys were few in number and very quiet compared to other visits. The lion was asleep, the Baboons were more intent on "cleaning" one another than doing anything spectacular, the flamingos stunk and the meerkats were fun. All in all, we had a very nice day at the zoo even though I didn't get to see some of the animals I wanted to see and even though some that I saw were kind of mellowed out. Then we headed home.

All the way home, those three four year old children laughed, yelled, screamed, cried, talked, screamed, touched, slapped, picked, screamed, asked questions (1,000,000 questions), told stories, screamed, pretended to be animals, talked, screamed (did I mentioned SCREAMED?)!!!!! In short, they had a wonderful time on the way to the house! In truth, so did I and the other two dads who were with me. I'm not sure if they have come to understand what I now know to be true or if they already knew it and were waiting on me to catch up - namely, anytime a class of four year old children goes to the zoo, it's really more like the zoo comes to the see the animals.........

Thanks teachers for all you do to teach our children on a daily basis!