Buttonwood Park Zoo

Sunday the weather was supposed to be ify and we didn't know what to do.  I saw something on my Facebook feed that the Buttonwood Zoo was free.  So we jumped in the car and just went.  None of us had ever been before.  It didn't disappoint--it's a great little zoo for little kids, and it's DIFFERENT than the Capron Zoo that we just visited.  Different animals, different stuff to do.

There is a playground outside that we hit just before we left...a pretty large one that the boys really enjoyed before it started to rain.  So we left.  We had it all to ourselves!  :-)

The zoo was also deserted.  They told us it's generally slow Sunday mornings until around 11.  We got there at 10, an hour after it opened, and it was dead.  I love having places to myself.

They have two elephants!  Rosie and Emily.  They were extremely funny looking.  One was eating...I've never seen an elephant eat before, but it was comical.  It actually threw the hay up into its mouth.

I swear the elephant heard me say "Smile for a picture."  It turned around and looked right at me!!!  It was born in the 60s, so she's probably heard that a few times before...

The boys really liked the aquarium-style show they had with the seals.

 We also had a train ride all around the zoo with a CRAZY driver who purposely drove the train badly to amuse us...Sebastian loved it.

 And we went on the carousel, too.  All told, a whole morning of fun cost all of us $12--we had to pay for the train ride and the carousel.  Not bad, though.

We'd go back.  It was fun!!