The Essential Emerson: ZooTrain Take One

Another fun filled day! Instead of sleeping in like Mommy & Daddy hoped, Emerson was awake bright and early at 7am. I think the excitement got to him because today we took our first trip to the Zoo! Outside, walking, playing, friends, & animals...what could be better? We met up with our Kindermusik teachers; Ms Robin & Ms Mandy, along with some of the kids from other classes. We even got to see our buddy Corland again. Emerson was the youngest and the only one from our class, but that didn't stop him from having lots of fun and making a few new friends.

While there were a few exhibits closed for maintenance, it was a pretty cool adventure. Emerson even decided to go into a "cave"! He never wants to crawl into any kind of tube or enclosed space, so it was kind of funny that he decided to today. One of the highlights today had to be singing to the kookaburras! We were walking along with Ms Robin, one of the recent Kindermusik graduates, her little brother, and their mom. (I feel so bad that I can't remember names at the moment.) But we decided that the kookaburras needed to hear their song, so our recent grad decided to start it off. We were trying to get them to laugh or sing (yes they really do that) but they wouldn't! At least for us, once we walked away they decided to show their stuff.

Kookaburra
Australian Folk Song
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Eating all the gumdrops he can see.
Sing, kookaburra, sing, kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

We had quite a bit of fun just walking around and getting to enjoy the animals and the company. Before we decided to head over to the picnic area across the zoo's parking lot, we had to ride the carousel! Unfortunately, it took awhile to get running and Emerson was NOT into waiting. He currently has my patience. Hopefully, he'll be more like Bryant soon! But all the tears immediately stopped the moment we started. Once it was time to end, Emerson was again NOT happy! He wanted to go again.

We all brought our lunches and we decided to make use of the picnic tables by the water just outside the zoo's entrance parking lot. We didn't count on all of them being taken by church groups! But being the resilient people we are, we found a tree and hung out in the shade.

We couldn't leave the zoo though without taking a ride on the train! It doesn't actually run inside the zoo but in part of the park opposite the entrance. It was a pretty cool small train on actual tracks that could carry around 50 people (kids and adults). Emerson had a blast zooming around the park.