you can tell here by the hat and her wild gesturing that eleanor's ready to see some animals and have an adventure. she's not even a year old and she is already a seasoned zoo veteran. her first time around was at the national zoo in DC and this past weekend we visited chicago's lincoln park zoo. we got the idea to come down to the lakefront because our friends julie and carly were participating in a fundraising walk for epilepsy research that took them through lincoln park. we later went back to their house for a grill-out on the deck.
i have to confess that i've always been a bit snobby about my hometown's zoos. brookfield zoo (paid admission) was the ritzier (less smelly) and flashier (tropic world asia!) of the two when i was growing up, while lincoln park (free) was the sad (concrete and steel bar enclosures for the animals), second-choice option. that said, i was completely bowled over by how beautiful and updated the lincoln park zoo is now...maybe we'll actually go on the endangered animals carousel on our next visit. we had enough fun just watching everyone else go around and around and we spent our $3.50 on a little carton of popcorn instead.
here we had just seen some chimps amble by in their outdoor habitat. the primate house is always my favorite. we spent a long time inside spying on a silverback gorilla and his family.
rob was most impressed with the kangaroos. can you see that the one in the middle is rolling around on his (her?) back in the dirt? oscar loves doing that at the dog park--maybe he's part kangaroo. and did you know that a kangaroo's feet can't move independently of one another? zoos are great for random marsupial facts like that!
this flamingo photo should give you a pretty good idea of just how beautiful the day was. all of the zoo's redbuds, flowering crabapple trees and tulips were in bloom. i was totally won over. yay for free zoos available to everyone!
you can tell here by the hat and her wild gesturing that eleanor's ready to see some animals and have an adventure. she's not even a year old and she is already a seasoned zoo veteran. her first time around was at the national zoo in DC and this past weekend we visited chicago's lincoln park zoo. we got the idea to come down to the lakefront because our friends julie and carly were participating in a fundraising walk for epilepsy research that took them through lincoln park. we later went back to their house for a grill-out on the deck.
i have to confess that i've always been a bit snobby about my hometown's zoos. brookfield zoo (paid admission) was the ritzier (less smelly) and flashier (tropic world asia!) of the two when i was growing up, while lincoln park (free) was the sad (concrete and steel bar enclosures for the animals), second-choice option. that said, i was completely bowled over by how beautiful and updated the lincoln park zoo is now...maybe we'll actually go on the endangered animals carousel on our next visit. we had enough fun just watching everyone else go around and around and we spent our $3.50 on a little carton of popcorn instead.
here we had just seen some chimps amble by in their outdoor habitat. the primate house is always my favorite. we spent a long time inside spying on a silverback gorilla and his family.
rob was most impressed with the kangaroos. can you see that the one in the middle is rolling around on his (her?) back in the dirt? oscar loves doing that at the dog park--maybe he's part kangaroo. and did you know that a kangaroo's feet can't move independently of one another? zoos are great for random marsupial facts like that!
this flamingo photo should give you a pretty good idea of just how beautiful the day was. all of the zoo's redbuds, flowering crabapple trees and tulips were in bloom. i was totally won over. yay for free zoos available to everyone!
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