Zoooie!

Last week was Manon's Birthday. We went to the local park and then to the zoo. For such a small rural city, we were surprised at how exotic some of the animals were. It only cost us 1 yuen each! (about a 7th of a dollar) One thing was for sure we didn't have to worry about the animals hiding in their "Habitat" all were in small pens within easy view. Close enough that you could easily feed the animals, some of the kids almost lost a finger... First we saw a little monkey showing off by doing flips in his 1x2 ft. cage. ( I think I would be flipping out as well) Then we saw three black Moon Bears... pretty boring. We saw some more monkeys.The snakes were in a cage we decided was not really secure (just thin screen between us and them) In another cage there were about twenty snakes all together...in a big slithery lump. We saw a big camel (similar to the one I sat on at the bazaar) which this particular type is on the endangered spicies list. If we had wanted to, we could have touched it. It looked mad, we were not planning on a camel spit shower that day...
We saw a big tiger next. It didn't like the cage eather, it paced the whole time. Next to it was a lion AND a genuine Germaine Shepherd! Yes , these to guys were in the same pen. We weren't able to tell if the lions food had gotten a little big or if they were play mates...
















The lion sat glaring at us with its yellow eyes. Then sweet little three year olds Judah walked over. It looked as if he was prepareing to pounce on his prey. Then as we were commenting, Manon (6) walks over AND ! !!!!!!!
Commercial break* just kidding.
As quick as a flash, the lion jumped against the cage and reached his sharp claws through the bars! Manon screamed! ...I hope that is the closest she ever gets to being eaten by a tiger.
Chelsea was actually video typing, it looks pretty scary.
There were wolves, beavers, an arctic fox, exotic birds, and... turkeys! Imagine seeing turkeys in a Zoo...wow.
We saw a cool little red panda, who seemed to really like us. The little girls kept saying, " this is the saddest animal in the whole zoo!" I think all those animals were pretty "sad" but we did enjoy looking at them.