Stroller Phobia

Today was spent at the zoo, well at least the morning was, with my daughter and my grandkids and about 10,000 other people.  

It reminded me distinctly of Disneyland

where everytime you turned around you

were either tripping over a stroller or it was running over you.

Except that this time I was pushing one too.  Well, there's just

no getting around it, you can't carry the kids the whole time and

they can't walk so there you are.  It's a grand time regardless.

Not only were strollers running amok, at least 10-20 schools decided this was a great day for a field trip so there were buses backed up as far as the eye could see and kids to match, with the obligatory volunteer field trip parents running alongside. It was funny watching the faces of some of those folks, especially the men.  You could tell they wouldn't be signing up for such frivolity again any time soon.

Construction was everywhere.  There were as many animals "put away" as there were out for our viewing pleasure.  You know it's a deceiving place, it doesn't seem to me to be big enough to hold all those animals inside somewhere.  Maybe they have underground tunnels I don't know about, that would explain some things.  

It's interesting how so many of the touristy sites have construction "scaffolding" blocking the  view of exactly what you came to see when you go to see it.  The same thing was true in Paris, the same thing was true in London, the same thing was true in Washington, D.C. Is this another sign of the bad air we're breathing that it's destroying the exterior of all these buildings?  

In the case of many parts of this zoo, it's more that lots of these exhibits were 30 or even 40 years old.  It's probably better that they get them remodeled and updated now than let them go 

until the animals decide to leave through the cracks and breaks

themselves.  

Yah, much better.