Focht Family Blog

Our first stop on Monday morning was to the Potter Park Zoo. At the entrance is a large wire bear. The kids wanted a picture of them behind it so it looked like they were inside the bear but you couldn’t see them through the wire so I had to convince them to stand in front of the bear…

Walking around the park were a bunch of peacocks. I had never seen a white peacock before so I had to get a picture…

We also saw a very colorful bird but I have forgotten what type of bird it was…

They had some arctic foxes so I had to get a picture for my mom since that is the name of her truck camper…

My personal favorite was the binturong. I looked at it and knew that someone involved with the Princess Bride movie had to have seen one at a zoo when they were deciding what the ROUS (Rodents Of Unusual Size) looked like. I couldn’t get a good picture of the face but even the face and mannerisms were just like a ROUS…

The last picture that I took at the zoo is of Samantha and Timmy posing in a kangaroo…

Right after this picture an employee of the zoo told us that they had an issue at the back of the park and asked us to go to the front of the park. After the cat that got out of his cage in San Francisco we thought that the issue was an escaped animal so we pretty much ran to the front of the zoo. :) The issue was that they were doing some construction and hit a gas line. Since that could have been just as dangerous I think I am glad that we were done looking at the zoo anyways.