Zoolie Goulie
They had a trick-or-treating thing at the zoo today. I dressed Ally up in black, and threw her in the car at the end of her nap to go. When she woke up, we were at the zoo and she got excited. I pulled her costume (a pumpkin) over her head. She looked down at her belly and said "pumpin". She sounded confused. She got used to it though and liked it. The whole zoo thing kinda sucked. There was long lines whole time. It wasn't really even about seeing the animals. I thought they'd have a little more emphasis on the zoo, but it was all about passing out candy.

Anyway, we got out of line a couple times and stopped at the animals. Ally likes the monkeys a lot. She stopped to pet the donkey. She wanted to pet the goats, but I wouldn't let her. They were really stinky, and her hands would have frozen if I'd had to wash them. It was pretty chilly out.

We stopped for the longest time at the duck pond. I didn't have any quarters, so we couldn't get the food out of the vending. I always have crackers though. We broke up crackers and tossed them in for a while. Ally thought we were just throwing things though. She didn't understand that the ducks only liked it because it was food. Everytime, we got to the end of the crackers she had, she'd start throwing them leaves. She had just as much fun throwing leaves as she did food. The ducks didn't. One of the swans got impatient once and tried to peck her hand. He probably would have made it too. He was tall. I pulled her back a little and tried to convince her to stop throwing leaves.