A day at the Oakland zoo
It has been a while since we have gone, but we went to the Oakland City Zoo today. It was better than I remember, though the hills were just as steep.
First things first though. Let me tell you that family pass we got from the Lindsey Wildlife Museum a couple of weeks ago has already paid for itself. The pass pays for a year of entrance into the Museum as well as the Oakland Zoo and a host of other educational locations. And we decided that since we didn't have to pay to get in, we may as well go.
We had an enormous breakfast of daddy-made breakfast burritos before leaving, so we knew that lunch would not be a problem. Of course, traversing the hills at the zoo made breakfast wear out very fast. But not to worry. I made those burritos very big.
When we got to the zoo we decided we would take in as much as we could while we were there. And we did. We spent an goodly amount of time in the new Children's Area, an area dedicated to younger kids. We were able to see some new attractions like the alligators and crocodiles, as well as the bug exhibit. The kids were able to play for a little while in the play area and were even able to hop on two feet wide lilypads made just for skipping on.
We saw all sorts of birds, all sorts of large animals and myriad sleeping animal, like the lions and the hyenas. It was a rather warm day, so I can imagine that the animals would be taking some time to rest from the heat unlike all of the people there that were hoping against hope that the lions would come out to play. But as our docent told us, cats sleep on average 18 hours a day, so our chances of seeing one of those little critters was pretty slim.
Anyhow, we finished up our trip with some rides in the amusement park there, then took a ride on the train as a family, then had some ice creams before hitting the road to come home and eat once more, seeing as those enormous breakfast burritos had finally started to wear off.
