A few weeks ago, on our first trip nice weather trip to the Hamptons, we took Sloan to a petting zoo. She isn't talking yet, but makes an awful lot of animal noises, so we figured this would be quite the adventure for her.
We bought a bucket of feed, decided against the bottle of milk for the goats, and were off to meet the animals. There were pigs, goats, ducks, ponies, chickens, a massive camel, even wallabies and llamas. Sloan wasn't so sure about it all at first. The fact the animals could stick their mouths through the fence was a bit much for her. That Dad was actually feeding them was even more! She loved running around taking it all in; she even got to pet a bunny rabbit and ride a pony (with Dad's help of course). By the end she was brave enough to go into the goat pen, and Dad saved just enough feed to attract all of them. Success!!
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| Smelly pigs! |
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| Lil' Sebastian |
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| Open road... |
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| Family selfie |
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| Sloan's first pony ride |
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| Not so sure about the goats |
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| Goat attack! |
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| Fun at the zoo! |
All in all it was a successful first zoo trip. We also went to the Central Park Zoo with Courtney & Oakley for Mother's Day. It wasn't quite as successful, but she had fun nonetheless. We saw penguins, and I think she was afraid they were going to come through the glass. Perhaps an actual petting zoo wasn't the best first experience!
One final video from our petting zoo experience:
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