Zoo Lights!

Ooops! I wrote this in December but forgot to post it:

Every year we make a trip up to the Portland Zoo for their zoo lights display. It's really quite dazzling and the kids LOVE it. This year we brought along a couple of school friends, and the four kids ran from one light display to the next with shouts of joy and awe. 

The highlights, aside from the lights themselves, were the bats and the elephants. The bats were awake and active, "walking" along upside-down, fighting over food, and just being their creepy, batty selves.

In the elephant house, we had a good laugh. The mama elephant stood facing away. All we could see was her swaying backside. Her back was covered with sawdust, and there was straw and sawdust and large lumps of elephant poop scattered on the floor around her. Beneath her feet, lying on his side was the baby elephant.

"Do you see the baby elephant?" I asked the row of kids with their noses pressed to the glass.

"Ye-es!" they chorused.

"I see the baby elephant!" Annabel yelled. "And look! I see more baby elephants!"

"Where?" the other kids asked.

"There!" She pointed away from the mother and baby to the far side of the enclosure to the brown lumps lying on the floor.

"Those aren't baby elephants, Annabel," said her brother. "That's poop."

And then the boys started in on the poop jokes. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.