Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Zebra TRICKS



Last weekend, my cousin, Daniel, and his wife Kham came to stay with us--they were having a late celebration of their 2nd anniversary. We LOVED having them stay with us and getting to spend time with them. (Although, Daniel may not have enjoyed it as much--Hannah was on him like white on rice. I think she's "got a love attack" on her cousin.)



On Saturday we all went to the Zoo. We saw lots of animals--the Koala Bear were even moving (some of them). We only saw the Panda Bears from the bus--the line to look at them was WAY too long. We trekked up to the Polar Bears. We looked at the Elephants and Giraffes and Meerkats.



As a special shout-out to my niece, Maddy, we briefly saw an Anaconda snake on our way through the Reptile House. We were kind of hurrying at the end, so we only saw it for a second.



On our way down from the Polar Bears, we saw the Zebras. They were being VERY friendly. So friendly, in fact, that it was impossible to tell if they were participating in animal foreplay or just horsing around. We adults seem to think that it would have been quite EDUCATIONAL to hang around.... As we were QUICKLY passing through, Topher piped up with: "Oh look, the Zebras are doing a TRICK!" I didn't know that Zebras turned tricks.....

9 comments:

diane said...

You crack me up!

jennifer said...

"horsing around" - ha! i laughed out loud!

those "zebra tricks" would have caused a flood of questions around here. what did you do?!

Maree said...

We left QUICKLY! We've seen zebras before, moving right along!

lisa said...

once i saw the lions "wrestling", hmm. have you read brisingr?

Laura Keith said...

Wrestling! Now that's a great way to explain it if questions arise! hehehe!

Anonymous said...

doing tricks, eh? that's so funny! jeremy and i went to the monterey bay aquarium for labor day and a crowd of 50 was watching two penguins "wrestling."

Becca said...

There are horses right by the kids elementry school...there have been many times where I had to point out the clouds or anything else I could in a desperate attempt to get them not to see the "Tricks"... Funny stuff.. too bad I'm not always fast enought...

Sunshine said...

When I was in the fourth grade, we went to the fair. It was an innocent time, riding rides, looking at animals. Innocent until the horse got "excited" and a part of him touched the ground. I kid you not. I am still scarred.

Robert Givens said...

Maree - Your blog is never boring, that is for sure. Yes, the zoo can be very educational. Some of those pictures sure didn't look like the SD Zoo I remember. Love ya, Dad