This morning, we braved the heat and humidity and headed out to the
zoo.
Since we were there mid-morning, we got to see the cow milking demonstration. Calli thought it was really cool, but she's a little mixed up. She thinks the cows drink milk, and then the tubes and pipes collect their pee.
We visited the
"Farm-in-the-Zoo" and saw the just hatched baby chicks.
Calli and Mari sat in the big tractor. Calli wanted to wear the seat belt, and explained to me that only one person could sit in the seat at a time.
Mari loved crawling back and forth through the big hatching eggs and peaking her head up.
Other highlights included:
* the resting pig, who was pregnant
* the goats
* the gorillas
* the 3 zebras
* the deer with big antlers
* the tiger (we only saw 1 tiger today, and no lions)
** and stopping for a snack of
ice cream & a banana inside the
air conditioned cafeteria
This afternoon, Calli played with our neighbor Jake. They played with Play-Dough, the made things out of popsicle sticks, and then they went out to feed the birds. Jake has this little itty bitty toy bird food bowl, and they took turns filling it with birdseed and then dumping it on the ground.
Then they moved on to chasing birds and trying to get the birds to eat the birdseed. Needless to say, that did not work very well. This picture was taken exactly 2 seconds after they were walking down the sidewalk holding hands - it was so precious, and so fleeting.
