Karen has decorated the basket on her
scooter with autumn flowers and a
scarecrow. She is in front of the waterfall
at the National Zoo.
This little guy thought it was as much fun watching
us as it was for us to watch on him.
It was a beautiful day to go to the zoo. Alan loaded up my scooter and away we went. The drive to DC was gorgeous with all the autumn colors along the way. We spent the entire day there. Parking has gone up a lot since the last time we went 4 years ago but the zoo still has free admission. It was the first time we got to go through the entire zoo since I now have my scooter to get around in. We saw lots of animals there except for the giraffs. Apparently, they were sent to Florida 2 years ago. They are my favorite animal. We didn't see any elephants either, not sure where they were, certainly not in the elephant house or their outside pens. Maybe they went with the giraffs. There's a lot of construction being done where the bears and elephants should be. The tigers and lions were there and I got some good pictures of them but the best was the cheeta. The seals were enjoying sunning themselves, it was funny. We got to watch the zoo keepers feed the sea lions and they got their exercise by going after a frisbee that was tossed to them...of course they were rewarded with fish. The prairie dogs thought the visitors were as interesting to watch as we watched them. The bald eagles looked happy, one was on a branch outside while 2 more were inside a nesting box outside. The gorillas decided it was time to go inside before I had a chance to take their pictures, guess they're camera shy. The giant panda bears were the best of course. They didn't even look real as they ate their bamboo. They looked so cuddly. All in all it was a fun day at the zoo and I even got a souviner bucket of popcorn. That will come in handy to keep Teacup's treats in. The National Zoo is a nice zoo but I still can't wait to go back to the west coast to visit the San Diego Zoo, now that's a zoo to see!
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