Day 3 DC 4/18/18

Last night we went to dinner at Firefly.  The kid's meals weren't too imaginative, but they cool thing is that they brought a raw cookie and some sprinkles to the table and the kids decorated their own cookie which became their dessert.  As you can see, Nathaniel is a minimalist and Zoe goes whole hog.

This morning we went to the zoo.  I'm glad we got there early as it was a lovely day and it became very crowded later on in the day.  Our first stop was to see the pandas.  They were chomping away on their breakfast of bamboo shoots and other goodies.  We all agreed that they were very cute.  Zoe's hand is next to a mold of a baby panda - it is about the length of a stick of butter!

We wandered around and went into the small mammal building where Nathaniel found a screaming hairy armadillo (instead of curling up into a ball when it is threatened, it pushes hairs out through its armor and screams).  Dave's favorite was a reptile building and Zoe loved the Galapagos tortoises.

We saw a 40 year old female orangutan who was playing with a sheer window curtain - putting it on her head and then wrapping her whole body up in it.  We also visited the gorillas.  There was a new baby, but it was not in view while we were there.  The lemurs were very active - I love that their tails are longer than their bodies.

For some reason, the armadillo picture is being shy and doesn't want to post.  I will try to put it on tomorrow.  They kids had a great time - and even enjoyed their dipping dots to cool down as it was in the 60's this afternoon.  Nathaniel had rainbow and Zoe had panda dots.  The last photo is one of the very long escalator at the zoo metro stop - you can see the bottom is way down.