On Tuesday we made a trip to a petting zoo called the "Mini-Mini Zoo". All in all it was a bleak trip, aside from the fact that I got to meet and hang out with some pretty cool mommas. I was immediately saddened when I saw a Llama just hanging out, alone, in a concrete enclosure in the parking lot. It didn't get much better inside.
The animals' enclosures were just tiny - enormous frogs were in buckets where they couldn't even turn around, rabbits were in hamster cages...it was just not a place I would feel inspired to visit again because the animals were not, in my opinion, appropriately housed. It was free, which might be part of the problem. They may be better off charging a couple hundred yen to get in and using that money to care for the animals. The petting zoo is actually an egg farm, that also specializes in cream puffs. I had heard that their cream puffs are incredible and I was excited to try one. Anyway, we were only there about an hour when Dominic decided to explore outside a typhoon door. He was on his way back in when the heavy steel door got caught by the wind and slammed into his leg. That was it for us - off to the ER we went. Luckily it turns out his leg is just badly bruised and not broken, but even the radiology tech was surprised it wasn't broken. Little Dominic, always up to nonsense and always finding new ways to injure himself.
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| The kids didn't really understand why they couldn't pet the ostriches. |
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| Oooo ostriches |
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| Cute little piggies, they were so friendly. They're probably due to be turned into some sausage soon. |
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| "Roarrrrrr" |
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| Koi fish! |
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| Sad Little Pony |
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| Alcatraz for animals |
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| Dominic thought it was Maximus from Tangled |
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| Horse with no hope |
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| Dominic felt so bad he even offered to help clean... |
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| Natalie was so excited to see her friend Leona |
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| You couldn't pose a picture like this... |
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| They really love each other. |
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