Zoo trip

Today the kids enjoyed one of our frequent trips to the zoo

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Leopard Tortoise

Feeding Lorikeets

TURN DOWN THE VOLUME!

Check out the baby Red Crowned Crane - and the all-powerful vehicle of protection (or stroller depending on who you ask). 

Bird House

Penguins!

We don't normally ride both the train and the carousel but since it had been a while and Seamus had his birthday and he wanted the train and Izabel wanted the carousel....

Riding the Carousel

Seamus kept saying "the monkey one"  I kept saying there are no monkeys I see an Orangutan,Gorillas, and Baboons - neither Seamus nor the woman in line in front of us understood what I meant.

Seamus was happy to ride on the bench - I learned facing backward to take pictures makes for a very dizzy experience

Meeting one of the starts of the animal show - They said he used to be part of the show but as he got bigger and slower (now 50# and 9 years old and will get to be over 150#)  the audience would wait for some big climax as he wobbled across the stage taking longer and longer.  He walks 1 mile per 5 hours a whopping 0.003333 miles per hour

So Izabel asks, "It takes us 2 hours to get to Akron how long will it take him to get there?"  The zookeeper says "A-kron?"  and after some quick math we figure 450 hours if he doesn't stop or get distracted by the yummy wheat

They also told us a story about an orangutan baby at another zoo who would turn the turtles they had in the exhibit on their backs.  They trained his mother so that when they yelled "TURTLE"  she would run over and put them back in the pond.  I guess a toddler is a toddler.

SPDY TRTL

Seamus insisted on taking a pic here - he usually yells "NO PICTURES" so I had to take him up on the offer.

And for supper we had home-made Philly sandwiches with Waldorf salad. In honor of such an occasion we watched Fawlty Towers.  "What's a Waldorf anyway, a walnut that has gone off?"