8-24-11

so we decided to head over to irvine regional park and the oc zoo today. we first went about 2 years ago, with gramma, when brenny was not yet one. there's a train to ride on and a children's zoo on the other side of this massive, regional county park.

a petting zoo...but nowhere near as nice as the zoomars petting zoo. the rabbits were even caged up, and only the kids (not mine!) were roaming free to be petted and brushed.
i told dashiell these were "burros" and he says, "you mean donkeys?"
look at this chuckwalla resting comfortably. =p
after the zoo, we went to the other side, where i saw there were lots of picnic tables adjacent to this little playground. there were lots of kids there before we got there (that just left) and then more came while we were eating.

this (dinky) little playground set was far more interesting with lots of other similar-sized children around to play with. =)

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in the collage below:

getting a close-up visit by a peacock...and matthew being very serious while completing the scavenger hunt at the zoo. there was one 2 years ago when we came...i'd hope that the questions were different, but i have no idea. matthew completed it before we had to leave (with nana's help on the last one), so all was good!