Week at Zoo Camp

On Monday, July 27, the kids celebrated Grandma's return after her trip on the "hotel boat." This is also the first day of Zoo Camp for the boys, and much to Laura's disappointment, she couldn't join them. Benjamin came home from camp with a lemur tail that he made in his Creature Feature camp, and Joshua talked about beaks and seeing the kangaroos in his Rebel Raptors camp. (How are kangaroos relevant to raptors?) In the evening Joshua and Laura saw the Swazzle puppet production of the show "Water Color" at a Glendale branch library. Joshua was so fascinated by it that he wants to make his own color pearl.

On Tuesday, after dropping the boys at the zoo, I took Laura to play in Shane's Inspiration playground in Griffith Park. Even though it was early in the morning, a few other kids were playing there, and Laura enjoyed picking up some friends (note: the bathrooms seemed fairly clean and had toilet seats). When we were done at the playground, we rushed to the Americana at Brand mall in Glendale to catch the current kids concert. The performers, Rhythm Child, had drums and instruments for the kids to play which Laura thought was exciting (especially the yellow tambourine and the rainbow drumstick). Then we enjoyed lunch at the Crepe Maker stand which has a free kids meal deal, and Laura played in the playground, which, thankfully, was nicely shaded.

After Zoo Camp, Joshua showed off an egg that he had decorated, and he saw a peregrine falcon while Benjamin's program was about feet. Afterwards, the kids cooled off at Cerritos Playground in Glendale.