Zooropa

It's Saturday, which means that it's Okinawa adventure day. Today we went to the Okinawa Zoo. While the zoo itself is not as large as the San Diego Zoo, it was filled with a rather impressive array of animals. Gabriella and Greg even got to feed the elephants.  They had some native Okinawan animals, bats, huge snakes, and some birds. But they also had a Tiger, elephants, giraffes, raccoon dogs, and kangaroos and koalas. Gabriella got to hold a snake in the petting zoo. They also have paddle boats to ride around on and a very cool ride area, where you could ride a small toy train, drive a hello kitty car around a track, ride the merry go round or take a pony ride through the ride area. Yep, ride a horse, with a helmet on while being let around by a guide. We didn't do that, but perhaps we will next time. At a few of the animal pens you could pay extra to feed the animals with the trainers. The elephant feeding was 200 yen ($2 US) and well worth it. We didn't eat at the zoo, but they seem to have snack places located around every corner and of course there were vending machines. We had a fun day and a cute little zoo. Although it was like every single other zoo I've ever been to in that it had a couple of huge hills. No need for the gym tonight, I walked the zoo.