park time

It's my desire to get out and walk in the parks whenever possible... well... maybe more honestly I should say, "Whenever I feel like it... not always when possible!"
Today T and I visited a park about a mile from our home.  It has great paths for Thomas' scooter and we decided to make an unplanned trip to the little zoo.
This little zoo use to house roaring lions when I was a little girl.  The cage now stands empty.  However, we got to see several animals we have been reading about and lots of others too.

 From a distance these hairy little pony/horse animals looked like lions.  We decided that since two men seemed awfully close and friendly to them that there was no way for them to be lions... we discovered they weren't.  We named them Carmel Popcorn and Chelsey.

These little guys aren't cage bound.  We had just read about chipmunks so it was fun to see and hear them in most cages, eating the seeds left behind by the other animals.

The zebra put on a show for us.  He ran around kicking his hooves (hoofs?) in the air, running directly towards the group of us at the fence.  Quite thrilling!

How many toes does an ostrich have?

We read recently they only have two on each foot.  Thomas thinks they must feel like they are missing one... well, these guys seemed happy with their two. 

It all ended with some good park time.  Thomas flew around on this thing for about 15 minutes.  I'm not sure how he and the other boys stomach it but based on the laughter and smiles everyone had a good time spinning and spinning.

Thankful for fun times together,

m