Sea Lions, Bengal Tigers, and Malayan Sun Bears, Oh My!

What better way to spend the first day of spring than at the zoo? 60 degrees, in the company of friends... the day was a delight.

Lorikeet Landing. Pay a dollar for the privelege of being swarmed by beautiful birds. Louise would have hated it. The kids were half thrilled and half terrified. We'll definitely remember it forever.

On Sunday night, Tabitha started putting on her socks and shoes. Edwin asked what she was doing. "I'm getting ready to go to the zoo, " she said. What a disappointment to have to put on pj's instead. The next morning, she sang, "We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you? You can come too, too, too. We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo," ALL the way to the zoo.

Penguins and polar bears, fish and flying foxes, otters and orangutans. God does good work.

The first 3 hours at the zoo, Tabitha begged to see the elephants. When we finally got to their enclosure, we couldn't see them. "I'm sorry, honey," I said. "There's nothing there but scat." I picked her up to get a better look. "Wow!" she yelled. "Look at that beautiful scat!"

There was a dancing polar bear. It would walk forward 8 steps, then back eight steps. Forward, then back. For at least twenty minutes. Maybe it was wearing an ipod? Or maybe, as Lori said, it was bi-polar?