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Jack and Sam wanted to go to the zoo last week, but the crowds were insane for some special event. \u00a0We promised that we would go the next weekend, when it will be International Tiger Day. \u00a0That was exciting news for my little tiger lovers. \u00a0We couldn’t let a broken ankle break our promise!<\/p>\n

We arrived and had a quick snack from VooDoo Donuts before going inside.
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I’ve learned that wearing work-out clothes is the best option for spending half a day at the zoo. \u00a0Too much walking and heat to bother with nice clothes and shoes! \u00a0The hip pack and mini cooler slung around my neck really finish the outfit.<\/p>\n

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Our zoo has a new tiger exhibit called the Edge. \u00a0It’s a larger and more varied habitat, back where the camels used to be behind the Northern Shores area. \u00a0Jack had already seen the new tiger home during his spring field trip at the end of first grade. \u00a0There were extra activity tables, volunteers, and tiger demonstrations for the special day.<\/p>\n

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There’s also this weird “Dinos Live!” exhibit through the fall. \u00a0Large animatronic dinosaurs are scattered throughout the park. \u00a0They sway their heads and tails, open eyes and mouth, and have recorded sounds. \u00a0The kids loved them.<\/p>\n

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After the Tiger show we had lunch and watched the Elephant demonstration.<\/p>\n

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We rounded out the trip with penguins, the bird palace, a primate visit near monkey island, and saw the mountain goats and sheep. \u00a0When we had circled half the zoo and were back at the entrance the kids let it be known that they REALLY wanted to see the komodo dragons \u00a0The lizards live on the edge of the park inside Tropical Discovery – where we had spent most of the morning watching sea otters and waiting for the tiger demonstration. \u00a0Really guys? \u00a0Sigh. \u00a0I parked Ben’s chair in the lion house in case of rain and trekked back east to get a look at those dragons. \u00a0Satisfied, we passed the polar bears, giraffes, and zebras for the third time today and finally left.<\/p>\n

It was a fun trip and I’m glad we went. \u00a0It’s fairly handicapped accessible, as zoos go. \u00a0Sam couldn’t remember going before (though he has at least three times) so everything was exciting and new to him. \u00a0At one point he asked me if the rhino was real, and I wondered if he was having a hard time discerning the real animals with the fake dinosaurs there too. \u00a0Educational trip \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Our monkey faces<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack and Sam wanted to go to the zoo last week, but the crowds were insane for some special event. \u00a0We promised that we would go the next weekend, when it will be International Tiger Day. \u00a0That was exciting news for my little tiger lovers. \u00a0We couldn’t let a broken ankle break our promise! We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}