Maya‘s absolute favorite place in the world to go is the zoo.  She adores animals and would all day, every day there if she could.  Luckily we have a fabulous zoo just down the street from us.  We take her as often as we can because it’s fun and I love how happy it makes her.

The other day we were in the midst of a somewhat mild weather bout.  The temperatures were in the 40s instead of in the 10s and 20s as it had been for weeks.  So, when we got up that Thursday and the weather was reasonable (not raining) and the temperature was predicted to be about 45 that day I asked Maya if she wanted to go to the zoo.  I got a resounding “oh ya” from her and off we went.

Since it was a school/work day for most people and the weather wasn’t exactly balmy the zoo was practically empty.  I think we saw maybe a handful of other people the whole morning.  Unfortunately, since the weather was still a bit cool for many of the animals we didn’t get to see a whole lot.  But, that didn’t matter because hippos were out and I think Maya would have been happy to hang out with the hippos all day.  I’m pretty sure they were happy to have her there as well