William doesn't have school on Wednesdays or Fridays so those are usually our "great adventure" days out on the town. Wednesday was gorgeous so we invited William's buddy from school, Caroline, and her mom to the D.C. National Zoo.
We loaded up and arrived around 11am. We parked right by the elephant house so that was the first exhibit we hit. The baby elephant was outside performing tricks with her trainer and the kids thought his performance was just fabulous. They both cracked up when the elephant stood on 2 feet and then raised his right front foot and blew his trunk. William and Caroline also stood on one foot to show the elephant who was boss.
Then William was insistent that we go directly to the snakes. I didn't know my boy loves snakes but at least they were behind glass! He was running around checking out all the reptiles, but the kids stopped to watch the crocodile the longest. They were sleeping with their mouths open and William and Caroline thought that was amazing.
As we headed down the path we looked up to find the monkeys flying across their ropes course that weaves throughout the zoo. That was very cool. There they were up in the air criss-crossing over the ropes and TOTALLY doing tricks for the audience below. We all stopped to watch the monkeys for a long time. We'd clap with the crowd and the monkeys would get excited and repeat their show for us. It was great!
Next up were the prairie dogs and the children's zoo. Inside the children's zoo they have miniature ponies, a cow, sheep, ducks, and sheep. The kids liked this part quite a bit and William asked me if it would be ok for him to play on the "playground" a.k.a the climbing toys for the goats. YIKES! Alas there was a kids playground near by and before lunch we let the duo run their hearts out.
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