Madtown Memoirs: Zoo and Columbus Halloween

10/25/09

Henry Vilas Zoo was having a Halloween day where you could see the animals and collect candy at the same time. We though it fitting that Isaac was a lion for the event.

The lion ready to hunt for some candy.

Mommy and her lion cub walking to the zoo.

Just like the picture because of his ear sticking out of the costume.

Isaac got to touch his first snake. He liked it. Notice that the lady lets you touch the snake and then immediately give you hand sanitizer. That is some good planning.

The animal carousel ride. Isaac went on it a couple of times.

Much to Isaac's delight they had a train that went through a portion of the zoo.

Isaac watched the train more than the animals that your suppose to be looking at during the ride.

Some friends of ours from church. Their little girl Mya.

Their older girl was Minnie Mouse for Halloween.

Another round on the carousel, this time on an ostrich.

A huge porcupine eating a pumpkin.

A red panda, looks kinda like a raccoon.

Bucky Badger showed up. Isaac loves Bucky but was a little nervous to be sitting on his lap.

Isaac took his nap on the way out to Columbus for his first round of Trick or Treating. He wasn't quite awake yet when we began to collect candy. As you can see he is less than enthusiastic about walking around in a pumpkin costume.

I carried him to the first couple of houses. Here is bunny Grace leading the way.

This house had a motorized spider in the yard. Isaac was curious and wanted to touch it.

Isaac eating some of his candy. I think he ate the candy from the first five houses before he could get to the next house. We eventually had to tell him to stop eating it all or he would get a stomach ache.

The candy collection crew. Bunny Grace, Ninja turtle Sawyer, white ninja Logan, pumpkin Isaac, and Evan in a hot air balloon. Evan got the most responses as people thought that he was either from the movie "Up" or mimicking the fake news story about a kid trapped in a weather balloon.