A Walk in the Zoo

Today Becky and I walked over to the zoo instead of walking around the neighborhood. We then spent nearly an hour in the zoo enjoying the spectacular warm sunny October afternoon. One of the highlights of our day was sitting on a park bench watching the three giraffes also enjoying the afternoon. One of them was munching on the leaves of an overhanging pine tree. I guess that's an acquired taste. We sat on that bench for awhile enjoying those giraffes which we often see our regular neighborhood walks that we take into Delaware Park and around the outside of the zoo. Usually we walk by the giraffe enclosure so it was nice to be able to just sit there watching them.

The zoo was not very busy despite the nice weather because it was a Tuesday afternoon in the fall. The only kids there were toddlers and babies. We took our time walking around and we actually didn't go into any buildings. We'll save them for our works around the zoo in the winter and especially the Rain Forrest building.

We did stop around the outer wall to the park and looked at the bird house on the wall tower where I took this picture. It was amazing to see all of the little bird houses built into the tower. This was our first time going over to the zoo since we went there at night in August for the light show. We love going to the zoo with our grandkids when they are visiting but we also like just going over there ourselves as part of our routine walks. We're zoo members so we might as well go as often as we can and of course it's only a couple of blocks away.