The Zoo

Once we had driven to Wellington, I chanted "lets go to the Zoo."  The I got told we weren't going to the zoo today, so I waited until the time came and as soon as I saw the first animal, I wanted to stay forever.  There was fast, slow, coloured, striped - every description.  There was a Sunbear, Tiger, Kangaroo, Tasmanian Devil, Wallaby, Antelope, Dingo, Giraffe, Scorpion, Tarantula, Red Panda, Birds, Lizards, there was even a Crane.  I felt like a wild animal in the jungle looking for food to hunt and kill.  Suddenly a Kangaroo jumped onto the path and poked his tongue out and ran away like a rocket.  After that, we found little Mere Cats and a huge 70 centimeter Porcupine.  Then we went to see the Lions, but only the girls would show themselves, then next were the Tigers.  One of them even came to the glass and looked at me for ages until I finally stared him down.  There were so many animals I couldn't think of a favorite.  Next was the Parakeets and other birds that fly.  My favorite bird was the Kiwi and my favorite reptile was the Blue-tongue Lizard.  My favorite carnivore is the Sunbear.  The Mere-Cats were smaller than I thought they would be.  They are so small that when one came up to the glass, I measured it and it was only an inch and a half bigger than my hand and fingers.  In with the Mere-Cats, was a big 1/2 meter black and white male Porcupine.  The Mere-Cats have nearly never noticed the Porcupine.  After that it was all-day every-day goats.  So instead we looked at the Ostrich pen, it seemed empty but we knew it has at least one in there, it was just on the direct other side from us.  The Orangatangs didn't like the weather.  The Pelican was loving it and so were all the other animals.  I was a lot of fun watching the Lemurs chase each other in a circle.  I liked a little monkey that liked me.  He was creamy brown with a light shade of black.  After we looked every where, we found no Zebra which was disappointing because Zebras are one of my favorite animals in the world.  There were some weird animals there, like these big giant rat/guinea pig looking things running around trying to hide from us.  I never forgot what I thought the Tiger was thinking - I thought he was thinking 'come on let me out of my den, I'm cold and hungry and ready to knock this door down and tear it to shreds.'  The Cheetah was keeping his distance and growling.  I didn't find an Elephant anywhere. so the biggest animal was the Giraffe.
If I could be an animal, I would be a Spring-box so I can explore the Serengeti Desert, because the Serengeti looks exciting and blooming, bursting with life, also prancing everywhere and very hard to catch would be good because then I wouldn't have to worry about them much.  When I found the Iguana, I had lots of fun finding all of the other ones because most of them were hiding under a tree or under a bush or under a rock away from the wind.
The last time I went to a zoo, I found an Elephant, Zebra even an Alligator, but that was Auckland Zoo.  Also the Baboons bottoms were pink, just like their chubby, short nose faces.  The Baboons liked to chase each other around.  When I saw the oldest Baboon, it made a scared face and ran into one of the houses.  There were young Tasmanian Devils that ran to hide but I got their picture in time, the fierce ones growled and acted like they were hunting us and one of them slid over a punga log to his house.  We watched them for nearly half an hour.  When I found the Goose, it was under a bush taking shade and also hiding.  There was so much noise everybody scared the poor goose. There were so many Wallabies I could hardly bare it.  At the Giraffe enclosure, it was so high I could see the Kangaroos lying in the sun until a little boy came and scared them out of their skins.  Then the Giraffe came round and scared me out of my skin.  It was a great day!