and the animals will love it if you do... (if you do, now...)

No, this is not October.

Just because the high Friday afternoon was 50 degrees and it was cloudy and windy, what makes you think this isn't July?

I decided we needed to get out of the house, and since we didn't have anything else going on, I felt like a trip to the zoo.

"Oh, it's so chilly and drizzly out, there won't be anyone there!" I thunk to myself.

Yeah, even after 11 years, I'm still not enough of a Minnesotan to know that they don't care. The place was packed.

Ah, yes. Don't forget it's Free.

Anyway, we found a lovely parking place right out front, and spent the day wandering, and not caring how long we looked at such and such, and doing whatever we wanted.




This was very cool, they had a butterfly house set up. We had to wait a short time, since only a set number could come in at a time, but it was the girls' favorite part.

(photo credit by little g)

Little g loved to match the butterflies and moths she saw with the ones on the paper they gave us for identification.

(trivia - do you know the difference between a butterfly and moth?)

(Moths rest with wings open, butterflies with wings closed.)

While little g spent the whole time getting closer to me whenever a butterfly (or moth) came too close to her, K spent her time holding her hand out to try to get a butterfly to land on it.

We were close to leaving when this one liked K's hat - even flew off and came back. She was quite excited.

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All in all, we had a very nice time. I'm not so sure about the animals loving it 'cause we did, although Sparky the seal did keep coming right up to the glass in her enclosure to look at little g (even with all the other kids standing there). It was so nice to go somewhere and only take my camera and wallet, I'm sure we'll be back, or on similar adventures, soon.