What I Learned at the Zoo Today

Random lessons from the zoo...

1. Don't pretend that you are going to throw a five year into water or she will cry.
2. If one three year old presses the emergency button in the elevator, the other three year old will do it too at the next available opportunity.
3. Don't try to pick up a five year old when she is about to jump or you will get smacked in the jaw by the top of her head.
4. Five little kids pretending to be lions can bring down an adult human.
5. Don't tell a three year old who didn't want the rest of his lunch that you fed it to the squirrels or he will cry.
6. Bats are attracted to heat. Rub your hand and they will fly right up to you.
7. Five kids can run in twelve different directions at THE SAME TIME.
8. Don't encourage the kids to quack at the ducks... or to hoot at the owls... or any other animal noise at any other animal.
9. There is a difference between apes and monkeys, I just don't know what it is.
10. and of course: We all spent $70 on a zoo pass so the kids could run around on rocks, play with fountains, climb on fences, and pretend to ride statues.