We're Going to the Zoo!

The day before we were to visit the Atlanta Zoo I made the grave mistake of notifying A-chan of our weekend schedule. Since we were going to be staying in a hotel overnight I wanted to try and get her used to the idea before we left, hopefully to avoid any traumatizing. Pretty much all that we heard out of her the rest of the day, every five minutes, was the fact that we were going to the zoo. When were we going to the zoo. What we would see at the zoo. All day long.

The morning of the zoo trip dawned bright and bleary-eyed and our girl watched us getting ready and carrying out luggage and asked if we were going to Thailand now. I was floored. We hadn't mentioned Thailand or our trip there in quite a while (I think) and the fact that she connected the moving of our luggage with that event over a year ago is fascinating! We cleared things up a bit, but every now and then she would ask if we were going to Thailand later in the day.

We all had a blast at the zoo. She wanted to see the elephants first so we did, after eating our bento lunches. Then we were off to the tigers and pandas. Her squeaky shoes made quite the impression as always! Her favorite animal of the day was the panda she said. They had these little panda stamp thingies on the way out of the panda area that you could have a stamp on your hand. Ketu got one and we tried to interest A-chan in one but she wouldn't go for it. About an hour and a half later, in the car driving away, she goes "I want a panda on my hand!" lol.

When the male tiger back into the little pool in their enclosure and laid down he got his backside all wet. A-chan's comment about this was, "look, tail all messy!"

Little 5 points was our destination for dinner and as one might expect we were magnets for the kitties around there. A handsome black long hair made A-chan's acquaintance on the main street and two grey short hairs followed her around the store when we visited Junkman's. The Hello Kitty store wasn't there any longer, but we found some really cute HK stuff at Junkman's.

To Be Continued...