Woolstitcher wrote:

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> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>> Woolstitcher wrote:
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>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>>>> It's all happening.
>>>>
>>>> I went to the zoo today. I can't remember the last time I did that.
>>>> Well,
>>>> I can...but it must've been back in the 1980s. And I'm only fifteen
>>>> minutes from the Los Angeles Zoo.
>>>>
>>>> Any zoo lovers in here?
>>>>
>>>> ObFood: I did not eat any of the animals; none of the animals ate me.
>>>>
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>>> We go to the zoo quite a bit, in the summer time about once a week, in
>>> the
>>> winter 1-2 times a month. It's a good place to walk and for kids to
>>> learn
>>> much more than you can teach them from a book
>>
>> Wow. That's a lot of...uh...zooing. Big city, big zoo?
>>
>>
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> Yes, the Cleveland Zoo.
>
> We go to one or two sections each time we go and learn all we can about that
> section. They also have a great play area. My 5 and 9 year old could tell
> you more about animals than most adults I know.
>
> It's a nice walk, we all get out of the house for a while and it's 'free'
> well, membership kind of free We also visit smaller zoos in the area.
> After school lets out this year we are going to have a zoo day at the
> Pittsburgh (sp?) Zoo, it's about a 2.5 hr drive.

Did that highway lots, years ago -- from Michigan and married a gal from
Pgh.

> If you get a zoo membership there are often joint memberships w/ other
> zoos, so you can get into other zoos for free.

Yeah, there's such an offer here for the LA Zoo and whatever that marine
place is down in Long Beach.


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