Potawatomi Zoo

We took the weekend to make a trip to the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend.  We planned to drive down the night before so that we could get to the zoo early and have plenty of time there before anyone got tired or hungry.  The kids had a great time in the pool, staying in the hotel, and eating the hotel breakfast.  Then they had to hang out in the hotel lobby for three hours while I got a flat tire fixed.

But other than that (and Debbie did a great job keeping them entertained), the day went well.  They had fun at the zoo and even more fun at the playground next door (all the way through the zoo: "Can we go to the playground now?").  Ethan's shoes got wet at the hotel, were removed to dry, and then were forgotten, so he had to run barefoot through the zoo and the playground, but he didn't seem to mind (we remembered to pick them up on the way home).

Travelogue, part XI

On one of the last days we visited a local zoo, though not a typical zoo. It was a private exotic animal farm, many of them rescues from zoos or circuses.





On the left, a standard zebra, but on the right is a very rare zorse (a zebra/horse).


The tour lady said this (some kind of antelope) was the most dangerous animal on the preserve, more even than the tiger or the lion.


The tiger (a white tiger) was huge!

Petting the goats

We ended our day at Binder Park Zoo with a visit to the Children's Zoo, which included this petting enclosure, with very friendly (which is to say, they ignored us) pygmy goats.