Yesterday I spent the day with my granddaughter Izzy. Mommy Naomi was busy taking classes at Marquette Law School. The weather was sunny and 75 degrees outside, so we went to the Milwaukee Zoo after I dropped Naomi off at school. At 9:10 am I parked the car on Bluemound Road to avoid the $11 fee to park in the zoo parking lot.
We saw the apes first. Izzy liked watching the different monkeys. Then we went to the aviary. Birds fly freely inside different sections of this building. We spent quite a long time in the room with a waterfall and Ibis and ducks. Izzy enjoyed going up and down the stairs to the viewing platform. We could see underwater while ducks were swimming on the surface by the waterfall. Sometimes an ibis would swoop down from a ledge above us and land on a railing near us. Ducks were comfortable waddling very close to people walking through the room to the next room.
We sat outside in Wong's Pheasantry area near the Whooping Cranes. Izzy enjoyed climbing, walking, and sitting on the fence posts along the walkway. We snacked on a McDonald's sausage biscuit and graham crackers. Izzy liked opening/closing my water bottle, taking the lid off/on her sippy cup, and pouring water into her sippy cup.
We went through other buildings with snakes, frogs, sharks. Elephants, giraffes, lion, tiger, penquins. There was a farm area with cows in a barn ready for milking. Izzy pretended to drive a toy farm tractor and farm truck.
By 2 pm Izzy fell asleep in the stroller so I walked around the zoo for a second time. About 3:15 pm I walked back to my car and drove back to Naomi's house. I was tired from a full day at the zoo.
