On March 28 we went to the Zoo. Last time Ms. Marlowe visited FSK we talked about numbers -- how a milliion seconds is a little more than eleven days, a billion a bit more than thirty-two years, but a trillion is more than 317 centuries!!! Mr. Little joined us with his son and niece. There was a lot about numbers at the Zoo, too. Sampson, the baby elephant, weighed 290 pounds when he was born and has been gaining 15 pounds a week ever since. Giraffes are six feet tall when they are born -- Cyndi watched one swallow all the way down. We watched the penguin feeding and the herring gulls trying to blend in and snatch some squid or sardines -- when the penguins are born they are brown, then they are silver and white, and then black and white. It was interesting to watch the cormorants and gulls "swim" with their feet and the penguins do the same thing with their wings! This penguin seems most interested in making sure the zoo keeper takes the right notes!
It was cold and rainy just as it was for the Newseum -- we hope we have better weather for our Swim into Summer on May 20th.