13 Things I Learned At The Zoo

We took the kids to the Omaha zoo last weekend, and while we had a great time, it was definitely an experience!

1. My children are not nearly as impressed by giant gorillas as I am.

2. Lots of flying bats scare the bejeezus out of me.

3. Georgia must be carried up all hills or she screams.

4. I still don’t like snakes . . . even when they’re behind glass.

5. When you buy a drink at the zoo, they don’t have lids or straws. In this situation, the drink lasts about 10 seconds before getting dumped on the pavement.

6. Eli will beg to ride the train and then cover his ears the whole time and complain because the 'toot' is too loud.

7. Ostriches scare me more than bats.

8. The one animal your child wants to see will find a place to hide when you finally get to its cage.

9. Georgia thinks flamingos, peakcocks and macaws are all ‘chickens’.

10. The zoo charges more for hot dogs than the movie theatre. And that’s saying something!

11. Eli wanted to wait by every animal’s cage until they defecated because he thought that was the coolest thing ever.

12. Every animal environment or cage we walked past was considered a ‘lagoon’ by Eli – The monkey lagoon, alligator lagoon, tiger lagoon, gorilla lagoon, etc.

13. Georgia likes to meow loudly at tigers, leopards, cheetahs and bobcats.