Saturday, October 18, 2025

Surprise on Our Walk

Becky and I went for a walk this evening after dinner and left the house around 6 pm. Earlier today we saw several families walking down our street in Halloween costumes and assumed that maybe the St. Marks school had a party for the kids. Then we were walking down Jewett Parkway toward the Martin House and noticed the neighborhood was all parked up. We thought there must be a wedding or some event there but as we passed we saw more and more cars down by Parkside Ave. We also started seeing kids and parents in Halloween costumes walking towards the park. Then it dawned on us... Boo At The Zoo again. 

We decided to walk another block down to Parkside Ave and walk past the Zoo. Well, the whole neighborhood was parked up and the zoo parking was full. There were kids and parents in costumes everywhere. It was a big event. We walked past the zoo and down Russell back to our house. We kept passing more kids heading to the zoo. We also saw many family packed cars looking for parking spaces.

I looked at the Zoo's event page on their website and sure enough if was Boo At The Zoo 2025 that was going on from 4 pm to 8 pm today and also next Saturday too. This also reminded me that Katie and Todd were taking the kids to the Philadelphia Zoo this weekend for a similar event. They were originally going to take them last weekend while we were there but the weather didn't cooperate. I did see that today they went to a neighborhood No Kings rally today so maybe they will be going to the zoo tomorrow.

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