February also contained a long weekend that we tried to take full advantage of. A wedding and an orthodontist appointment kept us from any overnight travel, but we managed to get a couple day trips in.
Delia requested that one outing be to a zoo. We've actually already been to several world class zoos (San Diego, Chicago) this year, but I did realized there was one not too far from us that we've heard good things about, but had never visited. It did not disappoint! The zoo was smaller than others that we've recently explored, but it featured a lot more hands on, up close experiences with the animals! For example, there were no cages in the monkey house. When walking through it, the monkeys were jumping all around us! Same with the kangaroos, we could stroll right through their enclosure and get close to them.
Ella saw her favorite, the sloths, doing the oh-so-exciting trick of taking a nap-- and doing it every time we went to check on them throughout the day!
We fed and petted sting rays, which was MY favorite, but not so much Delia's. It was a very strange sensation to have them put their mouths around your fist to suck up that little fish!
And the zoo had this beautiful new Africa exhibit, where wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, and lions seemed to live together. (I know there was probably some sort of tricky separation guests could not see, but it seemed very natural.) Here a highlight was watching the mama, papa and baby rhino together. He was nursing with mom and sparring/wrestling with dad. Quite the show!
Another morning of this long weekend, the girls and I headed to the trampoline park. We snagged the first jump time of the day and had it pretty much to ourselves, which is how Ella ended up spending nearly the entire time on the climbing wall with no lines. She started asking me to time how long it took her to get to the top. Thirteen seconds was her record!
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Ok, what zoo was it? I don’t think we’ve been their either!
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