as well as to experience their "Zoorassic Park" exhibit, which is only up until September, and which we didn't have time for the last time we were at the zoo. The exhibit is a re-creation of the habitat and dinosaur life of the Jurassic Period, complete with roaring, life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs planted throughout the walking trail:
The following is a slide show summing up our own experience in the Zoorassic Park. Cue your happy, bubbly, heart-warming family-outing music:
ME: Madeleine, did you like the dinosaurs?
MADELEINE: Um, NO.
ME: Why not?
MADELEINE: Because it was berry NOT FUN.
All was not lost, however, as we still spent plenty of time looking at non-scary animals, and the girls had a chance to attract just as much attention outside of the Zoorassic Exhibit as they did inside it. Julia was particularly excited to see the peacock show off his feathers:
"Look, Mama!" she shouted to me from across the way. "A PEACOCKY!!" I couldn't help but notice another parent standing near bursting into laughter over Julia's exclamation.
Later on, as we waited to see if the leopard would emerge from his hiding spot in the back of his cage, a zoo employee wandered over and started giving us some facts about this particular leopard. I asked a question Julia has inquired about, to which I had no definite answer: "We were wondering what caused this kind of leopard to be endangered. Is it because of hunting, or climate change, or what?" The zookeeper explained the loss of habitat due to the logging industry in this leopard's native area. I turned to Julia to try and make the answer more kid-accessible. "Remember, Jules, how I told you about animals losing their homes because of businesses moving in, or people cutting down forests to build there? That's what is happening to the habitat these leopards live in." Julia decided to make me look like the most awesome mom on the face of the earth in front of this zoo employee. "Mama, I only remember about the war with the AFRICAN-AMERICANS that you keep telling me about!" she responded heartily.
Well, at least she didn't call me Quee-Quaw.
Hahahahaha. Can't expect kids to answer the question in public and they almost always say something off-the-wall. Wonder if that zookeeper thinks you're a racist filling your daughter's head with unsavory ideas!!! So cute. I guess Zoorassic Park was too much yet. Maybe in another year. XOXO, Yiayia
ReplyDeleteI yie yie. These dopes. I think being called Quee-Quaw might've been preferable in this situation...
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