17 May 2010

Saturday we went to the Detroit Zoo. The zoo that is a five minute drive from the house. We had the choice of paying $36 for our family to get in for the day, or buying an $80 family pass for the year. Did I mention that it's open in the winter? We bought the family pass.

The zoo is definitely a "zoological park". There are lots of animals and exhibits but also lots of green areas, lots of picnic tables, and a big playground. We enjoyed the butterfly house and aviary immensely, checked out the penguins (very cool) and then walked all the way to the back of the zoo to see the polar bear & seal exhibit. You can walk through a glass tunnel that runs through the pool they have set up for the bears & seals. It was neat, but the shifting sunlight patterns made me a little seasick. Very cool to watch the seals swim around, though!!! The polar bear wasn't present.

Rose Pink and I turned over one of the small garden beds and got ready to buy some annuals to go in it. And a very nice person from church offered to watch our kids on Saturday night so Mr. Brown & I can go out for my birthday!

oklahoma city zoo

While visiting Gia earlier this month, we spent a morning at the Oklahoma City Zoo. We brought it up at breakfast and Nut Brown made a beeline for his shoes, repeating, "animals. animals." The zoo residents were surprisingly active that day as well, and we got to see all kinds of animals up and moving around and interacting with each other. Mr. Brown's favorite part was the night barn, which they kept dark so that visitors could see nocturnal animals, like bats, skunks, owls and flying squirrels, active. Instead of going to see exotic animals, we ended up in the local Oklahoma section of the zoo, and that was just as interesting. We saw things like raccoons and possums and badgers, as well as bears and buffalo and mountain lions. It was so much fun!