Another Trip to the Zoo

On Wednesday, Luis and I went to the zoo for a quick morning trip. Our original plans for the morning had fallen through, and before I knew it, Luis had too many episodes of Fireman Sam under his belt. We HAD to get out of the house.

Luis now likes to carry his map with him all around the zoo. I'm not sure if it's because Will Rimicci did that when he visited us in April, or because there is a talking map on Dora the Explorer. He often stops and points to it, describing the route from one place he knows in the zoo to another place, describing how you, "start here and then go over the bridge and then walk a long way and then you go up the hill and then you walk some more and then THERE - you are at the park [kids zoo]."
There is a HUGE above ground tank with fish in that Luis loves. We sat there for quite a while watching them. But after Luis told an unsuspecting younger kid that the fish would "bite him", I decided we should move along.
When Eric and Jeanette were visiting in July, we took them with us to the zoo. (Yes, we take almost everyone who visits to the zoo.) Eric picked Luis up and waded through an empty Italian Ice booth to get Luis extra close to the turtles. Turns out, Luis remembers this - as he tried the same short cut on Wednesday. No dice. He did find other ways to get close to the huge turtles and managed to scramble up this statue several times.

On a side note, on the way home from the zoo, we saw a loose goat in a neighbors yard. The next day, Diego and I saw the same goat properly fenced in to the front yard of a house one street away. Kinda surprising to learn that we have a neighbor with goats.