Hi everyone. I know you have all been enjoying Andy’s wonderful stories but I thought it was time to catch you up on some of the fun things we have been doing that haven’t made the blog to date. It may be because Andy has had to work and wasn’t able to experience some of these adventures.So going back to August 30th the week before school started Miles, Lee and I spent the day at ZooParc de Beauval. At the time we were living in Bourges and it was about an hour drive northwest. We spent about 7 hours at the zoo that day. The kids were in charge and enjoyed telling me where we were going. They also loved being photographers for the day – nothing better than having complete control of the camera.
We saw some animals we have never seen before – white lions and tigers, koalas and okapi, as well as old favorites – elephants, giraffes, orangutans, gorillas. And great fun was had at the family farm. We made two visits and our second visit included popcorn so we could feed the goats, or rather the goats could stampede the kids and devour the popcorn.One of Miles’ memories is watching 4 gorillas race around their habitat beating their chests and giving their king of the jungle roar (or whatever it is that gorillas do). Lee enjoyed watching the red pandas walk along the log. We rarely see the red pandas when we go to the zoo at home.
The zoo was beautiful and had lots of animals but the habitats were not as large or as natural as the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.
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