Santa Ana Zoo Field Trip
The Boy went on his first school field trip, a visit to the Santa Ana Zoo.
Santa Ana Zoo is a small zoo with loads of active primates. All of them were alert and moving about as the Kindergarteners observed with excitement. A special shout out to the White Handed Gibbon, who in addition to moving to the front of the exhibit so the kids could get an up close look, can scream like a police siren.
The Santa Ana Zoo also has a farm exhibit, with ducks and wild turkeys, feral pigs, goats that like to be fed, and, according to the zoo employee, one goat that doesn’t like to be fed, the San Clemente Island goat:
I will ram you. Ah ha ha ha!
There were wallabies and rheas and an animal that looks like a llama but isn’t one (nor is it an alpaca). It’s called a guanaco:
Why, hello there!
I attended the said zoo trip not as a chaperone nor volunteer parent, but as The Woman Who Is Allowed to Give Her Son Benadryl.
I was concerned that going to the zoo might result in a breakout of hives. The Boy’s skin has been unusual of late, with hives breakouts for no reason and I suspected that being at the zoo would have been an opportune moment for hives to strike. I asked the teacher about the Benadryl and as any of you familiar with public schools know, she can’t give him Benadryl. I also can’t give the Benadryl to The Boy to give to himself because one) I’m not guaranteed he’ll remember to do it and two) the school principal said no to that option too (I imagine part of the concern was that he might give it to someone else). So I took Little No Limit out of preschool for the day and we enjoyed ourselves a little trip to the zoo and no hives made themselves noticeable that day and all’s well that ends well.
Scarlet ibis in the Colors of the Amazon aviary
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I’m glad your son didn’t break out in hives! What a lot of nonsense you have to go through, though — and your son too.
When our eldest was a toddler, she had a horrible reaction to mosquito bites. For almost a year, that made my life pretty hellish — the nursery school teachers refused to believe that what she had was merely had an allergic reaction — and until we finally managed to get a good dermatologist, we couldn’t make them believe us. None of that is as hard as what you have to go through with eczema, so my hat is off to you and your son.
I’m glad you all had a fun and hive-free day! I love going to zoos. That scarlet ibis is gorgeous…great pictures.
The Santa Ana Zoo!!! I took my son there several times. I don’t think I’ve taken Marley.
The biggest memory I have of the SA Zoo is going to see the Capybaras. I had never seen one and when I went to the enclosure, there weren’t any out and about. I read the description which said it was the largest member of the rodent family. So, I am expecting something the size of a small cat. Maybe. I happen to look up and see one. I screamed. That sucker was the bigger than my dog! I’m glad the zoo was pretty much empty that day. It was less embarassing that way.
YAY to a hive free day! What great pics by the way!