Rachel, Lucas and Eli behind a waterfall in the Jungle
Headed out on the swinging rope bridge, I took the less wobbly route and went around.
Still smiling as we were headed to the parking lot!Rachel and I took Lucas and Eli to visit the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha on Friday. It's the first zoo trip since the Philippines when Lucas was traumatized by a camel and Eli attempted to touch a tiger.
We had planned on doing a short visit, seeing only those animals the boys most wanted to see. That did not happen but remarkably there were no meltdowns.
The zoo is a huge place with aquariums, jungles, desert dome, butterfly pavilion, an IMAX, plus all the "usuals". There is no way to go and see it all in a day and have anyone enjoy it.
We started out in the Jungle which ended up taking about an 1 1/2 hours to go through as every monkey, hippo and fish had to be studied from every angle. Then on to the penguins and aquarium. Lucas would have mimicked those penguins all day and by some weird alignment of the universe they agreed to go through he desert dome and head home. Again did you catch the whole no meltdown statement earlier.
As we were going into the Jungle, Lucas was ahead of me and I see him patting his chest and hear the following: "Oh, Oh, Goodness, this is wonderful, Oh! My goodness"
They bought the customary stuffed animals, Eli chose an alligator and Lucas bought a turtle. On the way home, both of the boys are playing with them when I hear a whole, very descriptive reenactment of alligator poop. I finally put a halt to it after it had continued way past funny and Eli spouts off...."but Mom alligators poop all the time!" Thank you for that lesson son. Next time perhaps we shouldn't stay at the exhibits long enough to make a toileting study.
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