The Zoo Boo
This weekend and next, the Houston Zoo is hosting the "Zoo Boo" to celebrate Halloween. GPG and I went on Saturday and discovered that the zoo went crazy with pumpkins:
In addition to a bunch of plastic jack-o-lanterns hung up in the trees, there were lots of real carved jack-o-lanterns in a long fountain in a central sort of promenade in the zoo. Some of them were very well done:
The zoo also gave lots of animals pumpkins as a treat. Many omnivorous and herbivorous animals had them in their compounds.
In addition to pumpkins, we saw a lot of little kids dressed up in costumes. We saw pirates, witches, princesses/fairies, a ninja, a dragon, a tiger, and lots of generic superheroes. (Or, maybe the superheroes were today's brand-name version of the Power Rangers or the Thundercats or something like that. I couldn't identify many of the superheroes and felt very old.) There were also a tad too many goth or Ren-Faire type adults with cloaks and white face paint on.
And why were we at the zoo in the first place? Not for the Zoo Boo, I can assure you, although it was fun to see all those kids dressed up in costumes. We were there . . . to see the NEW BABY ELEPHANT! He was awfully darn cute. Stay tuned for pictures of him, plus pictures of baby (well, not so baby anymore) giraffes and orangutangs!
In addition to a bunch of plastic jack-o-lanterns hung up in the trees, there were lots of real carved jack-o-lanterns in a long fountain in a central sort of promenade in the zoo. Some of them were very well done:
The zoo also gave lots of animals pumpkins as a treat. Many omnivorous and herbivorous animals had them in their compounds.
In addition to pumpkins, we saw a lot of little kids dressed up in costumes. We saw pirates, witches, princesses/fairies, a ninja, a dragon, a tiger, and lots of generic superheroes. (Or, maybe the superheroes were today's brand-name version of the Power Rangers or the Thundercats or something like that. I couldn't identify many of the superheroes and felt very old.) There were also a tad too many goth or Ren-Faire type adults with cloaks and white face paint on.
And why were we at the zoo in the first place? Not for the Zoo Boo, I can assure you, although it was fun to see all those kids dressed up in costumes. We were there . . . to see the NEW BABY ELEPHANT! He was awfully darn cute. Stay tuned for pictures of him, plus pictures of baby (well, not so baby anymore) giraffes and orangutangs!
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