6/18/07

Logan visited the zoo yesterday.

It was also father's day. We decided to go to the zoo in the afternoon. Originally I had wanted to go for a hike or a bike ride, but the weather didn't cooperate at all. It was a cool and drizzly day with a dark, overcast sky.

Logan was scared of the elephant. We walked down to the elephant pen, past the memorial to the recently deceased adolescent elephant. We saw one elephant sitting outside in the drizzle, eating straw. Logan stared at the elephant until it took a step towards us. Then he wanted to get away! I was holding him, and he squirmed around in a way that made it clear he didn't want to be close to the elephant any more.

We saw a male lion roaring. It was an interesting noise - more rhythmic and repetitive than the noise I've heard on television. Logan was entranced.

Logan's favorite place was the "northern trail" - the part of the zoo focusing on north american animals. More than anything he loved looking through glass at salmon swimming in a simulated stream. He pounded the glass, talked and shrieked in delight and walked up and down staring at the fish.