Zoo, "I'd like a photo of that"

Has Crispin risen to be a higher turtle in this familiar pose?

The Brevard Zoo serves as a touchstone. A dinosaur exhibit, with moving and roaring robots, provided the most excitement for the boys.





Up until pretty darn recently, one or both boys would not necessarily have considered this to be a fun activity. But voila




we grow and evolve and change, gaining and losing, remembering and forgetting, imagining and dreaming.

While it was sweet to witness Crispin being a little kid in the children's zoo (while Liam milled about on his own with contentment in his budding independence),


this play area no longer enraptures the boys for hours.

As I wrote yesterday, we were all finally over the age of 5, and the boys had their first experience kayaking. There was some trepidation, but we sort of enjoyed it, especially since Dad could be in the boat with them, and the only alligators we saw were babies.



The boys are talking about kayaking again (not necessarily tomorrow).

We are all feeding the birds in the following picture. Crispin chose to wear his sunglasses as eye protection; he does also look pretty hip.



Below is proof that I am actually on this trip, that the boys have not just been guided and photographed by a hybrid of a roombot and smart phone (though they might enjoy that very much).



The bird below may be the same one that landed on Crispin's head a few years ago, prompting the intelligent choice in eyewear.



After the zoo, we had a nice meal with Grandpop at Giuseppe's, a local Italian restaurant that has spruced itself up quite nicely in the past year. As Liam and Crispin shared a big caesar salad with enthusiasm before the meal, Grandpop said, "I'd like to see a picture of that."



This was, by the way, the 87th time he has commented on the wonder of Liam eating salad. I could sort of see Grandpop rolling his eyes as I pulled out my smart phone to take this photo; I had already shown him a book on the ipad2. I could imagine Grandma Edna saying, "Now I've seen everything" as she would definitely rolled her eyes. Grandpop did say, "I never thought I'd see this" about books on the ipad.

So here is a less than excellent picture to capture his bewilderment as I demonstrate the phone's ability to reverse the direction of taking a picture (a relative of mine took a video in this manner some 34 years ago or so; it ended up being of an eyeball; and it did not require all the gadgets of modern day).

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