The Wilson 6 Chronicles

The boys spent the night at Nana and Papa's so I decided that we would have a little bit of girls' day out fun. Since Eleanor enjoyed the zoo so much last week, I thought were would had to a local zoo and see what they have to offer. We've only been to this particular zoo during Christmas time because they put on a big light show and you can feed the deer from your car and any activity that let's you pet animals is going to be fun, in my opinion. I take that back- I did go to this zoo on a field trip in kindergarten when it was the M&M Zoo and my only memory from that was the turkey they had locked up in a pen. It made me upset because I couldn't understand why the turkey couldn't wander free like my grandparents' turkey. So with overcast skies and a few drops of rain (which prompted Eleanor to say on the way there "we are NOT going back"), we loaded up the van and off we went. We picked a bag of animal food and hopped on the safari bus. On the safari bus, they get a huge box of bread for you to feed the animals and I have to say that I loved it. Except for the emus. Have you ever looked at an emu closely. As God as my witness, I am a firm believer in the idea that birds and dinosaurs share some common ancestors because those damn birds had the same look in their eyes as she dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. More than once, I though to myself that at some point during the safari, it was going to be a throwdown between between me and the mu that kept eyeing Eleanor. Luckily, the emus knew what was good for them and stuck to eating the bread that people threw at them while we fed the zebras and buffalo with our hands. Also, did you know that zebras and donkeys sometime mate and you get a zonkey. I swear, when the tour dude said zonkey, I died a little inside form having to keep from laughing. Seriously, can you hear the thought bubble over the donkey's head. Wow- look that that zebra over there- she is a fine piece of striped animal. But what the heck is the zebra thinking? A donkey? That's the best you could do? There's no other zebras around. Or at least a horse? But I digress.The zonkey
Feeding the animals on the safari