Sunday, April 16, 2023
With the visit of Kyle, Katrina, and Adaline, it was a good time to visit the
Philadelphia Zoo. Considered the first zoo in America, it was chartered in 1859, but the opening was delayed until 1874 due to the Civil War.
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Brynne, Kent, Adaline in stroller, Kyle and Katrina at
the Philadelphia Zoo entrance (c 1874, by Frank Furness) |
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| The Ghostbusters were making sure the zoo was free of spirits |
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The Pachyderm House (1941, by
Paul Philippe Cret) no longer houses elephants |
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The Philadelphia Zoo was the first to create Zoo360, an
animal exploration trail experience allowing zoo residents
to roam mostly above the zoo in see-through mesh pathways:
here on the left are goats and on the right is a trail for humans |
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Mother Lioness Carrying to Her Young a Wild Boar
(1880, by Auguste Nicholas Cain) |
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Adaline can see the
Panthera tigris altaica/Amur Tiger |
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Adaline and Katrina sit on the Blue Gorilla (c 2022 in the
style of Don Kennell) who is made with salvaged car hoods |
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The young Gorilla gorilla gorilla/
Western Lowland Gorilla seems bored |
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Adaline and Kyle watch a
Melursus ursinus/Sloth Bear sleep |
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At the Rocky Run YMCA, we noticed
that a slide was installed upside-down
and backwards (note the "feet" at the
bottom of the green slide) |
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Adaline thought her mom, Katrina, made the
Bouncy Bee too bouncy at first |
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| Kyle and Adaline on a slide |
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| Adaline was soon doing the slides by herself |
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| Whoa! |
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| The jigsaw puzzle after Day 1 |
Monday, April 17, 2023
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Kyle and Adaline on slides at Concord
Township's Kids Dream Playground |
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| Katrina, Adaline, and Kent |
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| Katrina and Adaline |
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| Adaline peeks out at Kyle |
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| The jigsaw puzzle on Day 2! |
Thanks to Kyle and Katrina for bringing Adaline to us for a wonderful visit!
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