Kei had a training course all day today so THomas and I went to the zoo – along with the rest of Oregon. Apparently Elephant’s 47th birthday plus first sunny weekend day in months equals thousands of people wanting to visit the zoo. We had to park in the overflow parking lot and catch a shuttle the rest of the way. And when I say shuttle, I mean converted school bus that is not really designed to carry whole families AND their wagons full of zoo visit crap.

Thomas enjoyed the bus ride though and the beauty of having a zoo membership means we can go for just a couple of hours and not feel like we are watsing our money. On Thomas’ wish list for the day – the elephants, the giraffes and the tigers. Done! We can also add the hippos who were actually visible this time (hence the photo) and the zebras who showed more than their backsides for once. I don’t know what it is about te zebras – they always seem to want to face AWAY from the crowd. I probably would too if I had people staring at me all day.