Wow, have just returned from the zoo and feel like sharing something from my experience with you. After all, it was my first visit to a zoo, in fact any zoo! It was so nice just looking at different kinds of birds and animals. The first impression was the very cleanliness of the zoo. Truly amazing! Guess, the fact that visitors were not allowed to carry eatables must have helped in keeping the zoo clean.
It was unfortunate that the animals and birds were put in enclosures but I realized that’s how any zoo operates. Else, how would parents even think about taking their kids with them to a zoo? May be, even they might not like to go to a place where lions, tigers, crocodiles freely roam around. Now, I can only hope that the zoo management would be surely taking good care of their wards!
Since, we — mummy, papa and I — had gone to the zoo in the afternoon and we didn’t have enough time to visit it in a leisurely pace, we just opted for a battery operated vehicle that took us to major parts of the zoo. True, the vehicle helped us have a quick glimpse of the animals and birds but it didn’t allow us enough time to read about the zoo habitants and know some details about them. But I heard papa promising to mummy that we would come back to the zoo once again and that on our next visit we won’t take any vehicle, rather we would take a walk to the entire zoo to really enjoy our visit there. That offers something really great and promising to look for!
Oh, I just forgot to mention a funny incident. When we had reached a section where different kind of birds were put, mummy decided to buy a softy for me. When she had bought the softy, papa took me in his lap and started helping me relish the softy. But no sooner than we had reached an enclosure with lovely birds, a little monkey suddenly jumped towards me. Papa, almost on a reflex, threw the softy away and the monkey shifted his direction and caught the softy cone. Thank god, papa could make a quick and smart decision; else the incident might not have ended up as funny as it did! Lesson learnt, next time we are in the zoo we must not carry eatables with us, especially when monkeys are roaming around!
PS: While we were returning from the zoo, papa was telling mummy that the visit to the zoo was a sort of compensation for slapping me and mistreating me yesterday. Of course, mummy didn’t appreciate the reason, but still she said that she had really enjoyed the visit and felt like we had been to another place, far away from the hustle and bustle of the metro city. And she was right, but she is always right, ask papa!
[Of course, we could find our way out. But what about those within the enclosures! Will they too find their way out?]
