An hour later, I grumpily told the kids to take off their jackets we weren't going.
Yeah. That went well.
Luckily about 45 minutes later Ms.T-Hawks returned home and I used her keys. I still haven't found my keys. But you try getting an 11 year old, a 4 year old and a 2 year old excited to go to the zoo and then tell them at the last minute we aren't going. NOT FUN!
However the day was saved and we saw Polar Bears (not dinnertime! see early entry for reference) and Spectacled Bears and Black Bears. We saw Foxes and Mexican Wolves and Turkey's. We saw Red-Tailed Hawks and Lions. Let me just say that a half-hearted Lion's roar in the zoo is still a pretty intimidating sound (it was the first time I'd actually seen the lions awake in the zoo.)
And we saw a skunk. Now the problem with the skunk was that it was in a cage that had a glass wall only about 2 feet high. So that the little kids could go up to the cage and peer over the top and even reach down inside the cage! I could not get Lil Hawks and Mohawks away from that cage quickly enough! Just what I needed was a kid annoying a skunk and get squirted for the hour ride home!
And we rode the carousel... and we rode.... and we rode... and we rode, rode, Rode, RODE! I believe that I could put together a photo album of each of the kids on every animal on that carousel.
Here is a photo of She-Hawks (that is Mohawks in the background falling off the shark!)
