An evening at the zoo

Hi everyone,

As promised, here are the pictures from the zoo. First let me tell you a bit about this night, it is a night where sick and handicapped children are the special guests at the zoo. Tickets are by invitation only, and we were lucky to be given one by the hospital. The kids are allowed to help feed the animals as much as possible and get treats for themselves as well (free ice cream in this zoo). There are only a few visitors/tickets allowed to make sure all the strollers and wheelchairs have enough room to manouvre. A real special occassion, starting of in dutch tradition with rain!

So first stop: the inside oceanium, to watch the sharks and rays swimming overhead.

And look what wanders past here, a jumbo shrimp! Lucky for him we don't live in australia, he'd gone on the BBQ straight away.

Still inside to the tropical birds, these two are fighting over who gets the tasty treats that were handed out (depending on your species, most of it didn't look that good to me).

And here is the best picture we were able to get from a roadrunner. They are very fast!

Luckily the weather cleared up, and we wandered around outside, picked up some elephants poo (supposedly great for roses), and visited the monkey island.

Even the hyena's got an extra meal, probably to make sure they wouldn't try to eat one of the visiting kids. The hyena puppy looked a bit like lilo, but with a nasty temper!

The last set of pictures are from a Siberian sea eagle, where we were almost the only visitor at feeding time. Very impressive animals, and a unique opportunity to see them from this close. 

Do check out the video, just to get a better idea of the size of these birds.

For more information about the dream night at the zoo, you can check: www.dreamnightatthezoo.nl/ 
This organization works globally so there may be an event near you as well!

Enjoy,

Thijs & Louise