Toronto Zoo

Ostrich running

Stork's nest



Jesse, my mom and me sitting on a model hippo.

Yesterday, we went to the Toronto Zoo. When we arrived there, the parking lot was full, so we had to go to the next parking lot and it was almost full. (Maybe it had something to do with it being very hot out) We parked there and we had to go for a 15 minute walk to get the zoo. When we got to the zoo, IT WAS THE BIGGEST CROWD!! My dad thought it was funny, how could it be funny? To make the trip seem even harder Jesse, my little brother was walking way ahead of us. When we got him back we were in the middle of the crowd. I decided to go to the African Savanna. There the crowd got smaller. All of a sudden, people started yelling CONNOR! We figured that couldn't be good. Somebody was lost in a crowd. He was only three years old! We asked how we could help.

Wait a minute I thought this was about nature not search and rescue. Oh well, it is.

Anyway, they replied he was wearing blue and white stripes with buzz light-year on his shirt. My dad looked in the washroom and we looked around the zoo. Connor's mom found the staff and asked them to help. Soon, three year old Connor was found. He was smiling. His mom was so happy to have him back.

On our way from the crowd we saw a Stork's nest, Zebras, an Ostrich, baboons and lots of Canada Geese. The stork's nest was built on high rocks and out of thick branches. I thought the Stork nests were supposed to be either on the ground or high in trees.

The Zebras were running around. They were called Grevery's Zebras. There mane was long and thick. (Unlike Mountain Zebras).

The Ostrich did not want to get its picture taken. So it was running very fast away from the flashing cameras. Then a kid yelled look at the big bird! I thought well it is the biggest bird in the world. Eleven meters tall to be exact.

The baboons were climbing the wall and ignoring all the birds in their cage. Including Canada Geese and Savanna Sparrows.

After that we went to the Hyena cage. They were very fierce looking and running in circles in their cage. I think they were thinking about food... NO WAY I"M GOING IN THAT CAGE!!!

After that we went over to the giraffe cage. A baby giraffe was chasing a Canada Goose. The goose started flying and the giraffe almost fell over. No, I'm not kidding. It chased it a bit more and the giraffe can run surprisingly fast. Like 12miles per hour.

Anyway we had to start heading back. On the way back we saw everything we saw before so I'm not going to say it all over again.

We had a great day and after we went to the zoo we went for super.