Micah’s 1st Experience with the Goats

One of the best parts of having a zoo membership is that you don’t have to see all of it in one day. You can take your kids and let them see whatever they want to see, for as long (or as short) as they want to see it, and you’re not wasting your money, because you can always come back another day and see the rest. Plus you can randomly go to the zoo when the weather is perfect and everyone else is at work! And no, the zoo is not giving me anything complementary for blogging about it. I’m just enjoying our membership!

We were at the zoo for a birthday party on Sunday and Mara commented a couple of times that we didn’t see the goats. So when we went back on Tuesday, the goats were one of our first stops.

“Who goes to the zoo to see goats?” my husband asked.

And of course, the answer is: City kids. My city kids.

We had the goats all to ourselves this morning. No one else even came by to see them until we had moved on to the chickens.

This was Micah’s first experience with the goats. I was curious what it would be like.

Initially he had some reservations.

It helped that Mara was so comfortable with the goats. And they were so comfortable with her.

Mara showed Micah how it’s done. . .

Micah kept calling out to Mara. . . I can’t wait until he starts “verbalizing” instead of just “vocalizing”!

I have to say: these must be the gentlest goats in the world! They are sooo patient with even the littlest children!

All in all, it was a good experience–for the goats and the “kids.” 😉