Carousel

The Lincoln Park Zoo carousel gets its own post--because as complicated as I always eventually find visits to zoos, there's nothing complicated or remotely depressing about a carousel.

Except, of course, whatever happened to the brass ring!?!

So many cool critters to choose from for the ride. . .

at the Lincoln Park Zoo you can ride a baboon around in a circle while he eats a banana.

this was my ride--panda eating bamboo

Dan's so "over" the carousel.
He's generally too cool for school in pictures. . . it's one of the many ways he makes my life a funnier and happier thing to live.
(sometime, maybe, you will get to see the pictures from Christmas of Dan being too cool for the Chinese modern toy exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum, too cool for the giant Clifford the Big Red Dog at the Natural History Museum, too cool for the live creche at the Krohn. . . it just kept getting funnier and funnier)

elephant.
(i know all my animal names)