Brookfield Zoo

in the midwest!

it was fun, went with the whole family! we all had a good time.

will go again, and going to go this summer.

3 years after it was originally supposed to happen. I finally got to go to the Brookfield Zoo for my birthday in November!! It was a grey 50-degree day but not too chilly and all the buildings were extremely warm. Still, the weather kept others away so there was practically no one else there — exactly how I like it! I LOVE the zoo but I hate zoo visitors.

Talk to the workers. In particular the younger ones in maroon shirts. I worked at this zoo and learned so much and shared so much of my knowledge. We were trained to be able to inform kids and their parents (and everyone else for that matter!) using games and skeletons and feathers and quills. Anything and everything. So in short, if you want to get something out of the zoo other than seeing monkeys’ matting rituals, talk to the people working there and you will learn fun things that most won’t forget.

I live literally half a mile from the zoo…I can smell the animals if the wind is blowing in a certain direction. Although I am pretty much sick of the place, whenever I have out-of-town visitors, I make sure to bring them to the zoo!