This week Sadi's class got to go on yet another field trip...to the Zoo! Yes, Nevada has a Zoo...anyway that's what they call it. Before we left the school on the bus for the 1.5 hr. bus ride to the zoo they had called to say they were closed because of all the rain...it was raining buckets. They still allowed us to come though. This was my cute group who had to do research for their animal report while at the zoo. Our animal was the sloth.
Ordinarily the Sloth is not my favorite animal to see at the Zoo, but when there is so few animals to see, you see things you might ordinarily miss. Actually this is the first time I have seen a sloth awake, he was moving around in the tree branch (although he was hard to see because of the rainy window). We did find an interesting fact that I did not know: The Sloth only comes down once a week to poop!
Because of all the rain that morning all the birds and monkeys(the few they had) were taken indoors so we weren't able to see them. We did get to see a baboon...poor guy looked so sad.
We also saw deer, a camel, goats, rabbit (yes that is an actual exhibit there), a tortoise, peacock, zebra, lion, white tiger, and a LIGER! That's right, a liger.
You literally could walk through the entire "ZOO" in 15 minutes if you walk slowly, which was good since it was a 1.5 hour bus ride to get there. Sadi's teacher made each of the kids animal bingo cards which kept them excited the whole time.
We ate a lightning quick lunch there and then headed back to school. Although our zoo is not what I would call up to par by any means, it was still a fun day for everyone.
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Yeah...when you have been to a "real" zoo, everything else pales in comparison doesn't it? Too bad it rained:(
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