Text: "My kids had been looking forward to this day for a long time and it finally happened. We went to the zoo. There’s no zoo in Medea so we had to go to the capital city. We put our matching caps on, slathered ourselves in sunscreen and filled our water bottles. The entrance gate of the zoo is huge. There’s metal sculptures of a giraffe, a gorilla and and elephant on either side of the gate. We made sure to snap a few pictures with them before we got in. As soon as we got in, we smelled the smell of popcorn. Mariam and Lotfi wanted some so I walked to the kiosk, I was shocked at how overpriced it was, 500da for popcorn? But I didn’t want to ruin the day so I just payed. Little Maya kept trying to run away from me. It can be challenging to go out with a three year old. I had to carry her in my arms most of the day. My back is still killing me. We saw the birds first. The kids loved the peacock, especially because we saw one of the males open its colorful tail. There was also a few monkeys around but we’re used to seeing them in Cheffa. We wanted to see more exotic animals. We made our way into the big cats area. We saw a lion and two tigers. Little Maya threw some popcorn at the tigers. I’m not sure it’s part of their diet. Maybe they are vegetarian tigers, I don’t know. Lotfi cried when we saw the crocodile. He hates lizards and he said that it was the biggest lizard he had ever seen. I laughed and that seemed to make things worse. We went home with bellies full of popcorn and minds full of beautiful memories."

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