Munchie at the Zoo

We took Stephen to the Lincoln Park Zoo, one of the nation's last free zoos, and a place I took in from a stroller's eye view many times. Stephen loves nature and animals (still calling them all "da-gees"). But I think he doesn't always know what he's supposed to be looking at when he's at the zoo. He got more excited about the sparrows and seagulls than the black bear and was more in awe of the zoo interpreter's long red beard than the African Wild Dogs he was talking about. But he did get in to the African Savannah exhibit, where he was watched by meerkats and ogled plenty of cichlids at the hippo exhibit.