Pretty little kids enjoy the zoo, in my experience. Especially a zoo where they can get up close, even through plexiglass or whatever. And if it's a good size (not too big, not too small) and close enough to get to often, it might be a good investment for 75% of the year in that part of the country.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 11:37:27 am PDT #18441 of 30001
Because books.
Jesse - Apr 12, 2013 11:40:21 am PDT #18442 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This isn't good enough for you people?!
Yikes.
Kate P. - Apr 12, 2013 11:42:43 am PDT #18443 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I actually haven't been to the zoo here yet, but I think it's a decent size, and I'm looking for more things to do with her outside the house. It's pretty close by, maybe 10-15 minutes away. A family membership is $100, and individual adult tickets are $15, so assuming we usually would all go together, it would only take four trips for the membership to cost less than the individual tickets for Mark and me.
Maybe we can all go next weekend and see what we think of it, and how she reacts. I haven't been to a zoo in ages!
Jesse - Apr 12, 2013 11:48:17 am PDT #18444 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, if it's convenient, it might just be a nice place to walk around outside, if you're looking for a place to go for that.
DavidS - Apr 12, 2013 11:48:22 am PDT #18445 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Those of you who have taken young kids to zoos, what do you think would be the youngest age they'd really appreciate it?
I took Emmett to the zoo a lot when he was little. I'm pretty sure I've got pictures of him at the zoo in his stroller. Certainly by age 2 he was well into it, and he enjoyed it at 18 months.
Sparky1 - Apr 12, 2013 11:52:26 am PDT #18446 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Kate, I think a zoo membership is a great thing for kids who are new walkers (no cars! Lots of other kids to look at!), and if it easy for you to get over there and you have a membership then you never feel like you have to make a day of it - you can just go for a couple of hours. We have the panda and seal schedule memorized so we can pop over.
Also, DC's zoo is open at sun-up, so that when she wakes up at 6 am on a Saturday we can go see the animals and there is almost no one there.
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2013 11:56:29 am PDT #18447 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I mean, isn't a vibrator basically sort of a robot?
Not unless you define different vibration patterns as "tasks" that are "programmed". I think robot brings a lot of motion and programmability with it. Most of those people are probably requiring more C3PO than R2D2, although also more Maschinenmensch than either. Looks matter.
Burrell - Apr 12, 2013 11:56:55 am PDT #18448 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I feel like in the absence of further information, the house cleaner/caregiver is Rosie from The Jetsons, and the sex robot is Jude Law from AI.
In THAT case, I'm in.
Works for me too.
brenda m - Apr 12, 2013 11:58:42 am PDT #18449 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I feel like in the absence of further information, the house cleaner/caregiver is Rosie from The Jetsons, and the sex robot is Jude Law from AI.
Yup, sign me up.
Kate P. - Apr 12, 2013 12:00:45 pm PDT #18450 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kate, I think a zoo membership is a great thing for kids who are new walkers
Oh, good call. She's not walking yet, but I don't think it's too far off. (She's just discovered she can stand on her own, and she LOVES it. Which also means that I found her this morning standing on top of her little stool, holding onto the wall. I see some tumbles in our future...)
And I just realized that I don't actually have to make the decision by the time her birthday rolls around, because it's not as though she'll have any idea about her birthday presents anyway. So I can wait a few months longer, until whenever she seems ready. But we'll still go next weekend to see what she thinks of it.