Indy ZOO!

We bought a zoo pass!  It's valid for one year from purchase, and it "pays for itself" in like 2-3 visits so it seemed silly not to since Asher enjoys animals so much.  We took him for the first time on his birthday last year and he enjoyed it but it was hard to tell how much due to his age.  This time, my sister took her kids the day before, and they sent us tons of picture texts so I showed them to Asher so he could see his cousins at the zoo.  I told him all day that "after breakfast" the next day we would go to the zoo too (he has no concept of "tomorrow", but he knows what breakfast is).  He was soooo excited all day seeing their pictures and kept telling me that he wanted to see the tiger and the "paningos" (flamingos).  He shot up from his nap that day and stood straight up saying "go to the zoo! after breakfast! see TIGERS!"  He was pumped, and we were equally as excited to watch him marvel at the animals.  It didn't disappoint, he was totally overjoyed by certain things there, and seems to enjoy it all.  He could identify all of the animals so that was exciting in itself.  He laughed and laughed and laughed at the penguins, the exhibit is a huge glass wall on either side with little penguin domes where you can see the little dudes swimming all throughout the water (as well as under your feet in one spot).  He LOVED it!  He also was quite impressed with the flock of flamingos especially when they were out walking around by us.  His favorite part by far was the tiger exhibit... I don't know that I've EVER heard him squeal with that much delight and dance and laugh and squeal at something so much.  The tiger exhibit is huge and the tigers roam around, but there are two huge glass walls so you can get right up close, eye to eye to view them.  He went completely nuts!  He also really liked the huge warthog, and of course the elephants, rhinos, giraffes, jellyfish, etc.  We're going back soon  :)