Zoo!

On Saturday morning we took Nate to our local smallish inner city zoo in the hopes of him seeing some live animals other than our cats. I had a disconcerting feeling being there with Nate, and our stroller, and our diaper bag, etc. Chris and I are now officially one of THEM...parents with small child(ren) and a ton of gear doing stuff at a place that was populated with people JUST LIKE US. The zoo was a Stroller Hell (the 3rd or 4th ring, I believe) filled with 30-somethings sneaking peeks at each other's gear to compare it with theirs..."Wow, they have the Bugaboo. That stroller's, like, 700 bucks. Their Maclaren umbrella stroller is like ours except its pink with a cupholder" etc. Everybody was my age, everybody was toting some disinterested babies, and everyone seemed vaguely aware of their unflattering shorts and vanishing youth. Or maybe it was just me...

Anyways. Nate seemed to enjoy himself, and I'm pretty certain he saw some animals. The stinky flamingos held his attention for awhile, and so did the prairie dogs.




Here's Nate and daddy looking at the sheep, while I stayed outside the pen to watch over the stroller, and the diaper bag, and the camera bag, blah blah blah



Chris got some pretty shots inside the butterfly tent, too.