Que Sera Sera: The gang goes to the Zoo

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The gang goes to the Zoo

No school on Wednesday morning for Sera, Gaston and Kelyan so that meant 'Think of ways to occupy active toddlers' moment for the mothers three. To the zoo, of course ... where else? We visited the zoo 7 months ago when Sera was 8 months old, still stroller-bound. All I remember of the zoo visit then was one of sadness for the animals. Ok, I was having a melodramatic moment then, feeling that the zoo could have been better in so many ways. I was a little enraged, even thought of writing to the local paper. That thought never became more than that. So this second visit to the zoo, I was a little more prepared for what I could expect to experience ... and it was as expected, a lot more sadness and despair for the animals. Sigh ... this post is getting a little depressing huh.

Anyway, we made the best of it. We amused ourselves and tried to enthuse the kids with the one chimpanzee, one leopard, one jaguar, two tigers, two lions and what else, err ... and an overpopulation of monkeys behind the very small cages. There were also some zebras, some deer, giraffes, one elephant and one rhinoceros in pretty grass-less fenced up areas (ok, ok I will stop harping about the bad conditions). The weather was a little hot so the kids were either sleeping, sleepy, lethargic or bored. The two highlights of the zoo trip for them was probably the time they were let out of the stroller and having ice cream at the end of the trip. We had fun, nonetheless, really.