Orange County (A distant memory from our dating days, but we do recall a pacing wolf.)
London (Rainy, but it was our honeymoon, so it was romantic. It was there that I learned that Eric's parents used to buy him those enormous lollipops -- the ones that are as big as a kid's face. My parents NEVER let us get those! And thus began our first-ever parenting conversation. Guess who buys Dietrich donuts?)
San Diego Wild Animal Park (We slept there for Eric's 30th birthday. Nothing like waking up to a rhino passing gas.)
The National Zoo in DC (Lame zoo, but with good friends.)
Kyiv (Many, many times.)
Budapest (Cool baboons and hippos, but they don't stop patrons from feeding the animals, which creeps me out.)
Prague (Built on a hillside -- a nice zoo and a nice workout.)
Krakow (Dietrich got bit by a duck.)
Hamburg (Serious German quality -- probably the best zoo we've been to.)
San Francisco (A great brown bear and a lovely location, right next to the ocean.)
In March, Dietrich and I added two zoos to our list. Dietrich is rather hard to pose at the moment, so I've no photos of him with anything actually wild.
Dietrich's favorite animal at the Santa Ana Zoo was the rooster, although he's still talking about the swinging monkeys. Here he is in the big eggs on display next to the chicken coop.
Our first stop at the Los Angeles Zoo was the petting zoo. This really threw Dietrich off ... for the rest of the day, he begged to touch the less-touchable animals ... the zebras, the giraffes. Finally, he got to climb on an elephant. Well, an elephant statue, to be quite technical.
Cuddle-bugging a goat.
Dietrich's Baba and Papa have goats and sheep, so Dietrich didn't really understand why he couldn't touch these animals on their faces or try to climb on them.
The elephant.
