Zoo

Jim's taking a few days off work this week, so we kicked off the mini vacation today with a trip to Southwick's Zoo. We weren't sure how much Molly would get out of it, but she had a great time. For at least the first hour, if not two, she was interested in the animals, especially the monkeys.

Here she is with the baby giraffe, also named Molly.

When we talked about the zoo before we got there, I was telling her what kind of animals we might see and she fixated on the giraffes. This morning she picked up a dinosaur magnet and told me it was a giraffe. Turned out it was a diplodocus, but it did have a long neck -- very clever. Anyway, the giraffes at the zoo were really cool, but it turned out Molly wasn't very interested in them.

Here we are at the deer exhibit. It was around this point where she became more interested in the green bench than the animals.

Looking at the Watusi bulls...

Watching, and getting greeted by, the gibbons (monkey-like apes).


OK, Molly's licking my leg and my feet (saying "yuck" but still licking) and saying "Bunny. Bunny." I've made her wait long enough. Time to visit our own little basement zoo.