Day 287

July 10, 2011

Oh, yes, it has come to me - what we did on Friday. Well, one thing, at least. We went to visit Fraser at work for lunch. I really like doing that. It's nice to see Fraser during the day and nice for Jacob to see where he is all day and nice for Fraser to see us. Of course, Jacob remembers the robots we saw during the open house and wants to see those, which we can't on a normal basis, but... it was still a nice trip.

Sunday... Jacob was up really early today, crazy child. Like 5:30 early. We seem to be back to that schedule. Ugh. When Fraser got up, though, we went to the zoo together, which helped wake us up. That was very fun.

We got to see some different things. They brought out some snow for the polar bears and put it right up against the glass. Therefore the bears were right up close, too, which was neat. They are just massive creatures.

They have a dinosaur exhibit going on right now with automated dinosaurs. We skipped it today. I don't know that he'd really like it. There's a lot of loud roaring and fairly realistic dinos. Maybe we'll try it before the summer is over. We'll see. He liked riding this one enough for today.

 We sat down for lunch right in time for a Birds of Prey show at the ampitheatre. I hadn't seen this before, and it was cool. They had several birds of prey that came flying in from the back of the grassy area or that came walking out and would then take flight out to some pedestals throughout the lawn area. Very neat. Jacob really liked it. They had a Red-Tail Hawk, Turkey Vulture, Harris Hawk, Eurasian Eagle Owl (which looks similar to a Great-Horned, and it has orange eyes!), Hooded Vulture and Bald Eagle. 

 We also made a trip over to the elephants. They had one male inside so we got to see him up close. Holy crap! I think I probably came up to his knee joint. He was huge. Incredible. There was a man giving some info about the elephant; the coolest thing I heard him say while we were there was that he once saw an elephant pick up one sunflower seed off the floor with his trunk. Dang. 

I always feel most sad for the elephants at the zoos, though, because they are such intelligent and social creatures. I'm not all anti-zoo but there are times when I feel for the animals.

Jacob and Fraser had some nice play time in the afternoon after an all-too-short nap after such a looooong morning. I made a chard tart for dinner that was delishy!