I haven’t written a Tattler post for a few days. It’s just been such a lovely few days, I’ve been out side and working on other projects. I have so many irons in the fire, it’s hard to touch base with any of them much less than all of them, and this weekend I was able to do some of the things a hectic schedule at school often forbids.

We had a really interesting time at the Louisville Zoo on Friday. We got there and discovered that four of our children were coming down with that fever. Quick calls to moms and a bottle of Motrin saved the day. The big question was do we amend the day or make it through. It was a really tough question. I think we handled it very well.

We had a brisk tour of one side of the zoo before lunch and another brisk tour of the other side after lunch. We ate at “Goose Point” which is my name for the picnic table place. We were inundated with geese. I’m not sure how our guests liked eating with geese, but the children and I loved it. We fed and fed and played and played. “Don’t encourage them,” said Mrs. St. Louis as I flung them big bits of tortilla.

“Honk, honk, honk,” said the geese gobbling up my encouragement.

“I’m the food person, remember?” I said quietly so nobody would hear. Life is so much fun! I love geese and plan to retire someday among a flock of my own.

We saw bats including a nest of vampire bats drinking blood from a bowl. We saw a bat giving itself a bath. We saw penguins swimming and sleeping. We saw the white crock and other crocks who actually yawned at Miss Amy.

We saw the wolf daddy, the polar bear, the puma and mate, we saw the inside snake and frog and spider house, we saw the bald eagle and flamingo pavilions, the jaguar, the baboon sitting regally atop his rock mountain. These were our first sights.

I stayed back with the sick kids while the tour continued after lunch, and they saw camels, rhinos, elephants, and other larger animals.

The Louisville Zoo is well worth the day trip.

The kids were very well behaved and we had a good time.

Our field trip this week will be local. I will be out of town for a couple of days, and they’ve decided to do a local trip to be posted later.

Then a week from this Friday is our Garden of the Gods and Pounds Hollow trip. This is one of our favorites. Parent are strongly encouraged to come.