We went to the zoo today, which is something we do fairly often since it's right up the road from our house. Harry has this infatuation with turtles right now, which is really cute most days. We were going to the zoo with a particular goal today-to see the new baby giraffe. Our zoo has a great African safari section with the expected giraffes, zebras, rhino, lions and elephants. Strangely enough, there's a good sized exhibit in the middle of this African safari section just for tortoises. Harry always loves to look at the tortoises, shouting out, "Turtle! Turtle!" But he spends a couple of minutes looking at them, and we move on. Not today. Today, we spent probably 20 minutes in this section. That may not seem like a long time to anyone else, but 20 minutes is a long time to watch turtles. Believe me. We finally got him to move on to see the really cool baby giraffe that we went to the zoo to see. We then move on to the next section of the zoo, which has another of Harry's favorite animals...the tiger. The tiger isn't always doing something exciting. He likes to sleep. But today, he was walking around, and we had the perfect vantage point to watch. Guess where Harry's attention is? On the really cool tiger walking around, right? Nope. There's another small tortoise exhibit right next to the tiger exhibit. Yep...you guessed it. Everyone is crowding around us, staring at the tiger walking around, and my child is screaming, "Turtle! Turtle!" Andrew and I are wondering if we should save our money on renewing our zoo membership next year, and buy Harry a box turtle instead!
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