Parenting Fail!

It was time for a zoo trip.  The forecast was mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of rain.  Perfect for a trip to the zoo in that middle of summer!  The zoo had a Dino exhibit open that I figured John would enjoy.

But THIS is how John spent most of our trip inside the Dino exhibit at the zoo. Uh, parenting FAIL!   After much standing / sitting around in front of the T-Rex, he finally relented to my request for a photo.

You can tell how excited he is, can't you?  And what is up with my hat?  Surely the guy taking the photo could have said something to me about it.  I promised a trip next to the new splash-pad so John brightened up soon after.  Well, and I bought him a cool new triceratops mask to commemorate our trip to see the dinos.

It was hard to tear him away from the splash-pad, but we needed to move on.  I was getting hungry.

I had rented a stroller and while trying to short cut through the lion den where there was only stairs - no ramps (yes, we had to back-track!), we discovered this cheetah sculpture that was yearning to be photographed.  We did finally get some lunch and refreshed, we moved on to see the rest of the zoo.

The only other out of the ordinary things that happened on our trip was that the Kimodo Dragon must have just been fed because he was MOVING.  Every other time we've been to the zoo he's been lying very still sleeping on his favorite rock.  But on this day, he came out of the alcove at a decent pace, sticking his tongue out as he moved along.  He actually seemed pretty interested in the crowd watching and photographing him.

All in all it was a good trip to the zoo.  We did stay much longer than I anticipated, but it wasn't too bad getting home.  Although I could have done without the drama on the way home concerning what I didn't buy JHP at the zoo.  We are working on gratitude, but on this day it was a mute point.

-EBP-

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