The Zoo

We didn't really do much this past weekend. Finally, late Sunday, about as restless as I could get, I looked at Lisa and said, "I'm taking the kids to the zoo!"

You might think a day when the high temperature was 30 degrees and there were snow flurries falling was not a good day to go to the zoo, but I beg to differ. In the summer, when everyone else is going to the zoo, it is WAY to crowded. You can hardly even get close to the more popular exhibits, and you can be forced to park so far away that just getting to where the exhibits are can exhaust you.

But yesterday we parked right at the entrance to the zoo (right beside the handicapped spots), could spend as much time at each exhibit as we liked, and saw all of about 15 or 20 other people the entire hour and a half we were there. One of those 15 or 20 people was a zoo worker who was in the process of feeding some penguins and geese in the exhibit at the entrance of the children's zoo, which is the kind of event that will draw a huge, adoring crowd in the summer. But it was just us there yesterday, and he talked with us about the animals while he fed them and then answered our questions until we ran out of things to ask.
It was a nice day.