Because we stayed overnight in Minneapolis last night we decided today that we were going to visit the zoo. It’s been more years than I can count since we’ve been to a zoo – so it sounded like the perfect choice for today.
So after finding directions on our phone on how to get there, we didn’t have any trouble with traffic or directions.
But we did see some trouble once we got there. Do you know what that was? There was a huge line to get into the zoo. Obviously we haven’t been to the zoo for sometime and maybe lines were common now? Whatever the case is, we were literally the only one without kids crawling all over us. Now did we feel weird because of that? No, we kind of felt relieved.
We had a great time, the sun was shining and we saw a bunch of all different animals. The zoo has tons of different animals and with the couple of hours that we were there, we definitely didn’t see everything. But we did see quite a few animals, we saw
Monkeys … 
Buffalo roaming on the grassland 
It looks like this one camel is kind of dead doesn’t it? Well it was just sleeping – whew! 
And we also learned tons of stuff too. Not all good stuff though I have to say.
First thing that we learned is that Minnesota originally did not have any earthworms in the state. They found that the forest beds have changed with the introduction of people bringing in earthworms. Crazy isn’t it?
The next thing that we leaned is that Amur Leopard in Russia only has 30 animals left in the natural environment and the species will eventually collapse on itself and will be extinct.
We also learned that with the zika virus being a very big deal for many people, that in South Carolina they sprayed for them and they accidentally killed 2.5 million bees. So not cool!
And on a lighter note, we also learned that all kids are the same. We laughed when we saw this one kid who was yelling at his mom that he found a short cut and she was supposed to follow him. Well when we looked around and saw this kid we just died laughing. He literally went off road and was climbing up this one tree embankment. The mom was trying to coax the kid down and then we heard this little boy say ‘Oh no, I’m stuck” Too funny! And again we felt relieved that it wasn’t us.
We got home not too late and with all the chores done and the car unpacked, we found ourselves getting ready for the next couple of days of this long weekend. Yea for holidays!!