Welcome to (someone else's) Zoo!

Okay, so I frequently compare my life to a zoo... you can probably guess that since I haven't updated my blog since Ian was BORN! Hehe. Anyway, I'm taking this rare moment of solitude to share our adventure at a cheep petting zoo last weekend... ugh!

Daddy was meeting one of his lichen-y friends (interestingly, the ONLY other lichenologist in Pittsburgh!) last Saturday down in the middle of nowheresville, PA. I was itching to go somewhere outside, so I took Ian to this crappy little petting zoo out there. It made my inner vegan kind of sick to her stomach. There were dead birds in the cages, you could actually feed the bears the same crappy pellets that you fed all the other animals, and there was a sad little monkey by himself in one of the cages. Okay, enough of the Debby Downer stuff (God, liberals can be annoying! LOL!). We had FUN! :)

Ian was fascinated with this turtle! He could have just stared at him all day!
Okay, pop quiz: Which of these animals reminded me of Yukon?

Was it (a) the miniature horse?

(b) the sheep?

(c) the goats?

(d) the donkey?

(e) the llama?

(f) the LOUD donkey?

or (g) all of the above? If you picked "g", you were right! They were all just like Yukon because they were begging for food! I felt like I was at home! Again with the zoo analogy...

Anyway, I'm sure you couldn't give two hoots about all these animal pictures, so here are some more Ian pictures!

There was this one goat running around by himself so I thought it would be cute to get a picture of him with Ian. Ian just LOVED watching him (probably thought he was another dog!) so when the goat got close, I got my camera ready.

This is kind of what I wanted.

This is what I actually got. The darn thing started chewing on Ian's sippy cup! Needless to say (since I'm obviously SUCH a good parent! LOL) I dropped the camera and yanked the cup away immediately... but not before I got a shot of Ian's face that just says, "Aw, MOM! Why?!?"

Anyway, after seeing a few more animals (including these grizzly bears who fought over their treats the same way our dogs do!), Ian and I stopped and took a little break.

The very best part was the Cheerios at the end!