Whew what a day. Dave had bought tickets to go to the reptile show awhile back. Well today was the day for it, but he was sick. I took the littles by myself and we headed to Hillsboro. It was pretty awesome even if we got soaked before we got in and soaked on the way out. Rain in the PNW, imagine that. There were lots of things to look at. We started with "A Walk on the Wild Side" because they have the cats. We got our picture taken with a baby tiger and that was so cool. Tigers are not soft and this guy was feisty. Loved it. Then we moved to the petting zoo where there were the usual findings except these guys were miniature. The pony knocked Audrie over when she was trying to catch a goat. Not sure if the pony was helping the goat or jealous that the goat was getting attention. In this room there was also camels, chinchillas, hedgehogs and possums.
In the main room were the snake, turtles, an alligator, lizards and bugs. Audrie fell in love with the turtles. Had to finally drag her away from them. She did get to touch a snake. Connor wanted to but he wouldn't use the hand sanitizer. They liked the alligator. I had never touched one so I did it too. The top is hard although not as hard as a turtle. The sides felt like my purse. Weird. We moved on and Audrie held a cockroach and liked it. Then she found the tarantula and she really liked it. I was a little glad it wasn't offered for handling. We wanted to get their picture taken with a snake but we seemed to be out of luck. I wasn't sure if they were on a break or what, but that was when Connor decided he was done. We had been there for almost three hours.
I was proud of them for being open to seeing and touching. Means I am doing my job all right and not letting my fears and prejudices influence what they are willing to try. Audrie doesn't know that girls are afraid of snakes so she isn't. She was so excited to go and proclaimed we would go again after we had been.
Thanks Dave, we had a great time.
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