Yesterday Isaac and I decided to go to the Zoo, turns out a lot of other people had the same idea...The Zoo had lots of special activities planned for the day. They had several activities visitors could do, including making enrichment activities for some of the residents of the Zoo (put lard and pumpkin puree inside a cardboard tube then fill it with bird seed and nuts, etc), and free face painting. Our first stop was face painting, where Isaac asked the teen volunteer to make him a white tiger.
The coolest activity by far was definitely the polar bear enrichment. Our zoo has a three part enclosure for the polar bears: outside grass, boulders, tree; rocks and water; lower level viewing of the polar bears so you can watch them swim at eye level. For this activity the staff put the bears in the back quarters, opened the windows in the lower viewing area and gave the kids gloves to let them smear frosting on the bear side of the windows.
When all the smearing of frosting was done, they closed and locked the windows and let the polar bears out. Then we all got to watch as the polar bears smelled out the frosting, dove into the water and came to lick the frosting off the windows just on the other side of the glass from all of us. It was so fun to see them so close enjoying their Valentine's Day treat!
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