We took a trip to the zoo today. This weekend was the opening of the flamingo exhibit, which anybody at the zoo probably noticed as almost every worker had a flamingo on their shirt, in addition to signs at all the gates and a new map with a flamingo picture. Danelle also knew about it in advance from the zoo magazine and her calendar. So of course we stopped to look at them first thing in the day.
Danelle thought they were pretty cool, so we stayed there for a while.
Afterwords, Danelle pretended to be a turtle
a spider
and a caterpillar
We also went into the petting zoo, were we petted goats and a little horse
After lunch outside and visiting the “dark room” or night exhibit as most people call it, we waited in line to see the butterfly exhibit which just opened up for the season. Danelle was very patient.
Which was a good thing, because in addition to the butterflies flying around, we saw one that had just crawled out of it’s cocoon.
All in all, a fun trip to the zoo as normal. After we got home, she said her and Koa were going to go visit the zoo. When asked how they would get there, she said she would drive if I put the keys in the car for her. During dinner she also informed us “the reason I don’t want to go to sleep is I want to spend time with Mommy and Daddy”. It was a nice reason, but we told her she still had to go to bed tonight.
