Gone to the Zoo

Today we went to the zoo, as I'm sure you guessed from the title *smiles*. My dad, sister, daughter and I got there before nine, so entrance to the Children's Zoo was FREE!!!! We walked around there, saw a snake, a groundhog, got to pet some goats and brush them, then we went and saw (and petted) some guinea pigs and rabbits. We saw some lemurs, who made a very loud sound. The most interesting animal in the Children's Zoo was the tree kangaroo. I'd never seen one before. As we went through, I kept asking my daughter "do you know what day this animal was created?" Normally she didn't (we've not gotten to those days in our school yet) so we'd talk about what day it was created and what part of it's job is (the parts I could remember, anyway).

After the Children's Zoo, we went to the River's Edge. There we saw a giant anteater (really odd looking), elephants, a cheetah and hippos. The hippo's where my daughter's favorite. She wanted to ride them and "go into the water to cool off from the hot hot sun."

From the River's Edge, we headed over to the Penguin and Puffin Coast. That was FREEZING! But totally awesome. A penguin named Oscar stood there and waved to us

World's Coolest Penguin: Oscar :)

Then we decided the train would be a much easier way to get from place to place, we got off at different stops and saw lions, tigers, bears, monkeys, birds and other little animals who make the zoo their home on account of the easy pickin's.

We had an absolutely amazing day, the wonder and excitement on my daughter and sister's faces made the day even more enjoyable! AND I got to count this as a full day of science. When we got home I had my daughter tell me all about it as a "writing project".

"We went to the zoo. We saw a tree kangaroo, a log with a snake, zebras, lion, penguins, monkeys, and we went to a eating place (capt d’s) and we went to north pole’s…we saw a log. I petted mountain goats. And then we were dark. We went through a tunnel. We rode a train. I want one baby elephant on my lap riding on the train so I can hold on tight to her. We saw a hippopotamus. My favorite animal was the hippopotamus. I want to ride the hippopotamus and go into the water to get out of the hot hot sun. A kid said hippo. My favorite part was riding in the stroller."

And that was one of her first papers :)