What Do You Do at the Zoo?

We decided to attend the Boise Zoo this Memorial Weekend, because they had a new exhibit: The Wallaby Walkabout. It opened today, and Elle and I were excited to see some Australian Wallabies. Elle and I both enjoyed the exhibit (when doesn’t Elle enjoy something to do with animals?), and we were glad that we decided to attend today.

We also wanted to attend the zoo today, because they had their new Zoo Farm exhibit. In this exhibit, children (or anyone really) can feed the goats and sheep. Elle, of course, found this exhibit especially fun—she always wants to feed the animals. I think she could have stayed there for the majority of our duration at the zoo. She loved feeding the eager and surprisingly hungry (people were feeding them left and right) farm animals. I thought it was funny, because Johnny and I didn’t know we needed quarters to get the food to feed the animals, so we had no way of getting anything for Elle to feed them. But this did not deter Elle at all; she just picked up all the pieces of food people dropped on the ground and fed those to the eager sheep and goats. I think in the end she was able to feed them just as much as she would have if we had remembered quarters. Even still, we will be bringing our own quarters for next time—she doesn’t need to be picking the food up off the ground anymore.

I think Elle left the zoo today completely satisfied with her animal encounters. She loves animals so much, and the new exhibits at the zoo helped her to express that love. I am grateful for my crazy, animal loving girl.