Finally! A day without rain! But just because there was NO rain, did not mean there was NO humidity. It still felt rather like a jungle out there today. I decided that since we finally got a break in our miserably wet weather, I should jump on it and take Little Fellow to the zoo ...
We started with the Pelican Pier and introduced ourselves to all of the friendly pelicans hanging about, as well as the many ducks swimming around. Brendan imitated their sounds with his small sweet voice.
Brendan was in no hurry to move on to another exhibit … he is very thorough in his explorations, but that is no surprise and fits perfectly with his contented little personality.
The one positive about our rather uncomfortable weather was that it made things a bit less "crowded" today at the zoo … perhaps it was just the fact that it was a Thursday instead of a Saturday.
We finally walked away from the pelicans and ducks and tried to get a look at the monkeys … who weren't doing very much today whatsoever! They were all kind of bunched together, sleeping! Which was OK with us, because Brendan was just happy to be where he could see more ducks ...
I love your sweet expressions, Brendan-dear!
We saw lots of fish, frogs, turtles, snakes ...
And we went inside the Budgie Bird house and watched people feeding the colorful birds. Brendan was quite taken with them.
He was very gentle and careful not to step on any of them that were feeding on the ground ...
I wasn't sure about taking Brendan to see the stingrays … but then decided to try it anyway. We were SO HOT that the water looked pretty inviting ...
The most exciting thing (for me at least) was today there was a BABY STINGRAY swimming around in the pool! I had never seen a stingray this little … it was so cute.
Brendan seemed to really enjoy watching them swim past him. He wasn't too sure about touching them, so I tried to show him how to do it with flattening his hand out and being very soft. But the stingrays were quite fast swimmers today, and I'm not sure if Brendan actually touched one or not.
On our way back to the car, we came in the same way we entered … so we had to re-visit the pelicans.
I'm so glad we got to visit the zoo today, Brendan! You were such fun to be with. We'll have to do this again very soon!
This was one very tired boy on our way home …. little sweetheart!
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