Zoo It

I got to go on a field trip yesterday with Jefferson's 5th grade class to the Phoenix Zoo. These were the kids in my group. I have to say just as a brief side note, fifth grade boys are weird and one of them, we'll call him Glasses, to protect the innocent, said the strangest things. I spent most of the day just marveling at his oddness. I think at the end of this post I will quote one of the more interesting things I heard him say.

I was happy to see the meerkats, they are so cute and they hadn't been in their enclosure the last few times I was at the zoo.

The big cats were all just beautiful, we got to see the tiger, lions, the jaguar and lots of other smaller varieties. The jaguar was my favorite, she was lovely.

Giraffes.
Groundhogs, seriously cute eating their little carrots.

A huge Golden Eagle.

The wolves were pacing around, I'd never seen them that active before. I guess the cool weather perked them up a bit.

The monkeys were very spunky, the zoo people brought out these rug squares with jelly smeared on them and the monkeys were very excited about it. I thought this "jelly" looked like barf. The monkey seemed to enjoy it though.

Jeffer enjoyed "milking" this fake cow.

The boys had to have their picture taken with this dragon. The real komodo dragon was warming under the lights in his little house, he was pretty big and cool looking.

Okay, so what that kid said, "Did you know scientists don't even have a good explanation for why the earth flooded when they killed Jesus' son?" I honestly didn't know what to say in response. Where does one start? I had literally met him 2 minutes before he said that to me and I was a bit baffled. After spending the day with him I realized that that was pretty much par for him. So my response to such a question was a non-committal, "Huh."

Just because they were weird doesn't mean we didn't have a good time. We did have a really good time, we covered almost the entire zoo which is pretty impressive and the boys were fun to hang out with.