A fond farewell to the zoo

We spent what might have been the most glorious afternoon we've had outside in a very long time at the zoo today. We promised ourselves that since the zoo closes in a couple days that we'd go do things we don't ordinarily do, and we did: we got *very* close to Tengku, the orangutan, the rainforest bird in one of the photos above chose the next minute to mercilessly peck and chase my sandaled feet through the Indonesian rainforest (may THAT never happen again!), we drummed over near the African exhibit that's under construction, and we walked through the aviary.

We'll miss the zoo while it sleeps during the winter, but it'll just make it all the more exciting when it reopens again next year. And this will open up more opportunities to use our Science and Botanical passes, anyway. Goodbye, zoo. See you in the Spring!