Brookfield Zoo

We love Brookfield Zoo, all year round. The day after Christmas was drizzly but we went anyway and had a great time!

(This picture is from a few days before that - I'm including it here because it was the best one from that day. I also have a video which is too big to email. I'll try to post that later.) We had a close-up encounter with Mr. Lion:

These are from the day after Christmas:

One of the great things about Hamill Family Play Zoo os that the staff takes out small animals for kids to pet. This was the first time we petted a rooster:

And they had a cat to pet!! Gavin wishes more than anything that he wasn't allergic to them. I let him pet this cat (named Domino) as long as he didn't touch his face and washed hands immediately after:

We spent a long time by the poison dart frogs. Gavin wanted to study them. They are very tiny and active! If you look closely you can see a green one on the branch:

Playing vet in the "Vet Clinic" at Hamill Family Play Zoo:

Gavin points the way in the Swamp:

In the wolf den. It was dark by the time we got to the wolves, so we saw them roaming around, which was cool! In the day, they mostly sleep.