National Zoo

Jonah was reading his book about 100 animals on the way to the zoo, so we asked, "which animal would you like to see at the zoo?"  His answer: "ducks!"  And so we found a huge turtle pond with two ducks paddling across - and he was thrilled.

Daddy wanted to see the elephants, pandas and ferrets.  We were lucky to see the elephant and panda (which are not always out!) but the black-footed ferrets were 'coming soon'.  How disappointing!  And misleading, since all the signs pointing to the small mammal house had pictures of ferrets.  We did catch a very active armadillo, which is pretty strange to see.  Did you know armadillos had hairy armpits?  It was scurrying about like a giant bug.  Jonah was mesmerized.