We spent about three hours walking around the Zoo. We saw a lion, tigers, zebras, ostriches, giraffes (include a 2-week old baby), lots of butterflies and birds and many other animals. We went to the Butterfly exhibit right away while Davis was awake. He enjoyed the butterflies, but they moved just a little bit too fast for him to track.
We also took him on his first carousel ride. According to observers, he grew more and more concerned with each rotation, but didn't fuss and finished with a smile for mom.
After the zoo, we topped the day off with a trip to Costco and Babies R' Us for a thoroughly long and exhausting day.
Pictures are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/john.naegle/20090802FranklinParkZoo.
The lion would wake up about every 30 minutes and roar to let everybody know to stay off his turf, then fall back to sleep. I tried to get a recording to train Domino:
In the butterfly garden:
Not too many of the butterflies would get close enough or stay still long enough to get a good picture (forgetting the telephoto also didn't help). This guy was the exception.
At the giraffe exhibit. The baby in the back ground is about 2 weeks old and two hundred pounds. The one in the foreground is 16 weeks old and about 17 pounds:
First carousel ride. This must have been one of the first times around as Davis has not yet started using his look of concern:
Everybody on the carousel:
Grandma singing Davis a song about a kookaburra (which we were watching):
A tired little guy:
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