A trip to the zoo on a random sunny Friday in the middle of April...
No particular day at all. Well before summer break and long after spring break...
We'll get there when it opens and have PLENTY of time to see everything! No crowds to deal with. Just us and the animals.
No particular day at all. Well before summer break and long after spring break...We'll get there when it opens and have PLENTY of time to see everything! No crowds to deal with. Just us and the animals.
What a swell idea for playgroup!
It was until we pulled up behind.... oh! about TWENTY or so school buses.
...with their hooligan children, pushy parents, and even pushier teachers, who had the same idea. Fine. We took our place in line between one group of rowdy, excited kids dressed in matching blue t-shirts and another."Umm, we're in a group... together," a mom in a blue t-shirt informed me, "You need to make way."Once we pushed past the long lines, we barely made in to catch "feeding time"...
"Umm, no."
"Well, we have to stand RIGHT NEXT to one other in line," she said pointing to a similar group in front of us.
"Yeah, but there's only one line, three of us, and about a hundred of you... I don't think you'll lose one another. Now, stop trying to cut."
"Mommy, I want TEDDY GRAHAMS! Me, too! Me, too!"Once the kids were fed and happily cruising in their respective strollers, the rest of our zoo visit wasn't too bad. The long-anticipated penguin exhibit finally opened to the public...
We got to feed the parakeets...
"Mmmm, everything is better on a stick"
...and see zebra butts.
We also paid a visit to this splendid gorilla, who looked about as pleased about the crowds of gawking humans as we were...
Upon closer observation, I noticed that he was actually eying a female gorilla with her lady bits "up in the air like she just don't care".
As I took this photo, a little grade-school boy charged the barrier next to me and started yelling, "Hey, look that monkey has two BUTTS!" Then, he turned to me and sweetly asked, "Why does that monkey have two butts?"
"Yeeeeeah, kid. That's two butts alright.... "
What? I certainly wasn't going to be the strange lady at the zoo telling him what's what only to have him go home and ask, "Mommy, what's a va-jay-jay?"
Okay, moving on... and next to the gorillas, we find the zoo's world famous "people exhibit"...
I'm only kidding. That's not where they keep the "people exhibit", Silly.
We got to feed the parakeets..."Mmmm, everything is better on a stick"...and see zebra butts.
We also paid a visit to this splendid gorilla, who looked about as pleased about the crowds of gawking humans as we were...
Upon closer observation, I noticed that he was actually eying a female gorilla with her lady bits "up in the air like she just don't care".
As I took this photo, a little grade-school boy charged the barrier next to me and started yelling, "Hey, look that monkey has two BUTTS!" Then, he turned to me and sweetly asked, "Why does that monkey have two butts?""Yeeeeeah, kid. That's two butts alright.... "
What? I certainly wasn't going to be the strange lady at the zoo telling him what's what only to have him go home and ask, "Mommy, what's a va-jay-jay?"
Okay, moving on... and next to the gorillas, we find the zoo's world famous "people exhibit"...
I'm only kidding. That's not where they keep the "people exhibit", Silly.
4 comments:
haha this post made my morning:) and, maybe having to explain (or make up something fast) about a va-jay-jay is what the pushy mom's deserved after being so rude:) I'm just saying...
This will be me on Thursday when I go with Lauren's Kindergarten class. Can't wait to post about it.
Those school buses drive me insane. I hate to drive into the zoo and find 100 of them. Or follow a group of 10 of them from my home to the Ft. Worth zoo. I loved the people exhibit. That is the best...
Isn't it funny...when you pull up somewhere & see all those buses? We went to the Ft. Worth Zoo on a sunny day in December & it was EMPTY! Schools don't plan zoo trips in "winter" so it's always pretty empty!
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