Saturday was the Potter Park Zoo Rhino Romp; the boys did this race last year, a mile-long run in and around the zoo.
Fric and Frac finished in about 10:30. Picked up a cool medal and shirt with the zoo’s penguin on it so that’s always a plus. We spent the rest of the day in and around the zoo checking stuff out.
All of the cousins after the race.
The same type of pictures as last year from this bird exhibit, but, I’ll point out they closed it right after the event last year (the birds were sick) and only recently reopened it. This year, the boys were really trying to feed the “eastern rosellas”; the red birds.
The boys have my iphone and are sneaking up on the peacocks and peahens on top of the structure at the bottom of the path.
Christopher has turned into quite the docent at the zoo….as we moved along, even before we made it to an exhibit, he would start telling us about what was coming up AND have other facts about those animals to share with us. Chided Mom to “stay with the group”, told us when we were done “Moving on, we have the….”.
Before we arrived at the lion you could hear him roar throughout the zoo….apparently a peacock had intruded on his are and the lion wasn’t very happy about it….
The giraffe sculptures were new; Matthew was being silly and auditioning to be a giraffe-jockey in the bottom photo
I have video of all finishers (along with the penguins and the baby mandrill) and will post it later this week.
