Today we took a break from schoolwork and went on a date to the Oregon Zoo.
We've been wanting to check out the zoo for sometime. I've never been, and Bird hadn't been in a long time. We had a lovely time and invested in an annual pass. Polars, Beaver and Bats were among my favorite exhibits.
Sadly our fellow zoo goers were remarkably irritating. The number of people with young children who either refused to answer their kids' questions altogether or gave them misinformation was amazing! The Oregon Zoo, like most zoos, provides ample signage indicating what animals are in the exhibits, where those animals come from etc... Rather than read the signs, or tell their children to read the signs most parents gave amazingly false answers such as "those are monkeys" while looking at an enclosure of orangutans which is topped by an enormous sign announcing not only the name of the animals inside but the meaning of the word Orangutan.
