Pumpkin Eating at the Zoo

We went to the zoo with Addy and Doug to see the animals eat pumpkins. It was a special day where they feed a different animal pumpkins every half hour. We got to the zoo shortly after it opened and let the girls play in the Zoonasium. Then we headed over to the hippos about 10 minutes before pumpkin eating time. It was packed out and there was no way the girls were going to see anything. A zoo keeper told us the next animal on the schedule and said it was in thirty minutes, so we headed to the Lion Tailed Macques (small monkey). We were the only ones there, so we staked out our spot right on the window and gave the girls a snack while we waited. We soon discovered that it was actually going to be an hour after the hippo feeding, but we decided we didn't want to miss it, so we stuck it out. It was the most anti-climactic experience. The zoo keeper brought out two small pumpkins that had been carved, and the monkeys ran over, ripped off the lids, ate the berries inside, and ran off. A squirrel might have been more entertaining. Next year, we're going to get a spot at the wolves. Hopefully that will be worth the wait. Of course, the girls had fun anyway. They loved the leaves on the ground the most.