No visit to Madison, seeing my mom and my sister's family, is complete without a trip to the zoo. I am not a big fan of zoos in general, and this one, though much improved in the 30-plus years I've been visiting, is not a particularly fabulous zoo (sorry, Mom - I have Woodland Park to compare it to!). It does hold a central spot in my memories of my Grandma Eliza, however - she loved to stroll through with her grand-daughters, or her daughter, or her sister, Ruthie, and I even lived for a year within earshot of the monkeys and the lions...I love that this is a place my mom can bring her grandbabies when they visit.
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| Looking for baby lions |
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| The alligator snapping turtle...it looked sad. |
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| Looking for poisonous frogs |
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| One relaaaaaaxed meerkat |
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| Mmmmmhmmmm. |
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| Riding alone, for the first time |
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| Sweet cousins... |
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| The capybara |
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| The wingspan of a swallow-tailed kite |
2 comments:
Nope, no comparison to Woodland Park, but the Madison zoo is FREE!! Don't find that many places!
Zoos are difficult places to visit! I so wish that we had an open-range one around here.
One with dinosaurs, too, as long as I'm dreaming big. :)
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