Penguins

[lollardfish]

Today, Nico saw his first real penguins. The penguins saw him, too, but they (and the gulls and terns) were really more excited about the fish that the keepers were giving the penguins. Nico, on the other hand, grabbed the front of his stroller and rocked back and forth with great glee. It's a "free flight" area, so the gray gulls (from South America) were wheeling about and shouting, and Nico looked up a lot and was very excited.

He also loves the fish, big fish swimming about in their tanks evoked similar reactions of concentrated excitement. It's a lot easier to focus on the fish in the blue than an animal in the rocky yard, and boy was Nico focused.

This means, I think, that we need an aquarium. We can't actually afford one right now, but maybe in the fall when we come back from Europe. Anything that stimulates my boy's brain is something we need. Fortunately, I did spend the money to get a zoo membership, so we'll be back. Maybe tomorrow afternoon! It's gonna be nice and warm.

Comments

[ferrousoxide.livejournal.com]

Thought i recognized your username. Well, if you're Kalamazoo-bound in May, maybe we should all be complete dorks and have an lj meetup ;)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I'm k-zoo bound in May, though i haven't figured out transport yet.

[ferrousoxide.livejournal.com]

Sweet! It will be good to see you again. A metric pile of us are planning on dinner the first night (if the MN crowd can avoid the inevitable Chicago traffic nightmare and get there at a decent hour) to which you're obviously invited. For that matter...i can't promise anything as we're making with the represent this year, but erm...maybe we could fetch you somewhere?

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

First night is thursday or wednesday?

[ferrousoxide.livejournal.com]

Wednesday.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I probably won't be there until the Thursday, but I'll be around. Just a limited amount of time I can spend away from home.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I think I'm taking the train. It's $18 each way, and I have a total budget of $600 for everything from my school (I'm not presenting, so it's a smaller budget).