Knoxville Zoo with Grandpa
Written by TJ and Jaime
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30 August 2010
Grandpa Gooden visited us for the weekend. He was just passing through on his way back home to Naples, FL. In honor of his visit, we decided to take Nora to the Knoxville Zoo. We have been there twice in the past and were generally disappointed. It's a beautiful and clean Zoo but sometimes the animals don't cooperate and we spend most of the time trying to see where the phunk the animals actually are! Apparently our timing was off in the previous attempts since we kept visiting during nap time. This trip was sooo different and actually exciting (which was good since we bought a season pass). Not only were the animals active, but there were actually coming over to the people watching areas. When we got to the lion area, he just walked all the way from the rear of his cage - right up to us! Maybe SMA kids smell delicious to Lions? Nora got a great long look at most of the animals and even got her feet smelled by a camel....but who hasn't?
Grandpa leaves on Monday and Jaime is in Atlanta for the week doing some training. It's me and Nora for the whole week (and Nurse Kim during the day). I expect this week to be really really long.
The pool might be finished this week too. We are waiting on those fantastic donated lights to arrive so everything is currently on hold.
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