Brookfield Zoo

Part 2 of our Fourth of July weekend involved going to Brookfield Zoo. This time we made a successful effort to see animals we had not seen on our previous trips.

It was a hot day, and wouldn't you know it - Gavin found another sprayer/mister thingy. It's the blue thing in the background of this photo, and it's next to where the elephants used to be. I don't know if Brookfield will get any more elephants; we love to see them, but it has become politically incorrect to have them in zoos. One time (I think it was two summers ago) we even saw protesters by the zoo gate.




Gavin was fascinated by the rhinos and then by the ostrich, of all things. He kept asking if it could fly.

Gavin by the wolf exhibit.

Here is my tired boy! I carried him from the bears back to the gate. After the Arboretum the day before, then waking up at 5:30 am, then running around the zoo, he was exhausted!