Woodland Park Zoo

Brandt and I finally joined the zoo and walked over to check it out this morning. Now they tell me parking is free until April! But the exercise did me good. And the walk home was all downhill.

Naturally, Brandt was more interested in the trash cans and rocks than the zebras and giraffes. A peacock roaming the grounds barely captured his attention. The peacock was quite the showoff, by the way. My previous experience has only been with the mellow birds at the pannekoek place in the Amsterdamse Bos, but this guy walked right up to us and spread his tail out to pose. Then he turned around and posed his butt for us, too.

The best part was the 2.5-year-old boy we met by the zebras. Brandt had a great time chasing him around (rather than pay attention to all the cool animals around us). They were done with each other by the time we hit the indoor Zoomazium play area at the end of our visit. The Zoomazium was pretty fun and useful for when it's cold or rainy. Of course Brandt had the most fun on the ages-four-and-up-only play structure.