To the zoo! Today, after heading to the grocery and munching on some yummy poppy-seed pastries, we headed to the zoo. At the entrance to the zoo, you are greeted with a gargantuan buffalo statue, and this is for good reason. Perhaps tied to Ukraine's inexplicable love of all things Native American, the zoo had about a bajillion buffalo. One tiger, one elephant, a handful of other animals, and a bajillion buffalo. Fat buffalo, skinny buffalo, buffalo who climb on rocks. Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo. Friendly, too. They come right up to the fence and flare their big buffalo nostrils at you. Woohoo!
Ellie, after minor setbacks upon discovering the absence of dolphins and meerkats, found a new favorite in the fox. And it really was cool. Right at her eye-level, the fox would run up, look at her in the eye, and run away. Run up, look, run away, repeat. We finally managed to convince her that the ostriches were cool enough to leave the fox, but it took some doing. Other highlights included some ginormous porcupines (like pig-sized), a leopard who actually looked like he was ready to kill and eat somebody(this is what I want to see when I go to the zoo), and some signs for a "behemoth" (hippo), which I didn't actually see.
The picture above is SUPPOSED to be us roaring with this scary-looking lion. Apparently Leah and Ellie didn't get the memo.
After the zoo, we hit McDonalds, and this combo made for a happy day for young Ellie. We even had broccoli at McDonalds! McDonalds-style broccoli, of course, which is smothered with cheese and deep-fried. Some things are the same everywhere you go.
4 comments:
Scary-looking lion? Yeah right! What are you so angry about?
It seems like an awesome trup so far. Kelly is not happy about your vanilla coke consumption.
this is actually steve, not kelly
Yeah, I remember the lion seeming a little more intimidating in person. Angry? I was defending my family from ferocious beasts!
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