Roger Williams Park Zoo, Providence, RI

The day started out sunny but with a cool breeze which was nice as most of the exhibits were outside. I would say the highlights were the elephants, the goat petting/contact area, the Faces of the Rainforest exhibit which had these super cute Golden Lion Tamarins (and their tiny babies!!) and a two-toed Sloth(!), and the interactive bird show. I actually volunteered in the bird show (which if you know me is totally out of character to volunteer for any part of a show like that) but I’m proud of myself for doing so- I sat at the front of the stage below a large stump on stage. They brought out a Great Horned Owl which flew to a pedestal in the audience area, then the bird trainer had the owl fly over my head to the stump in front of which I was sitting. I was able to make a slow- motion video of the flight! It was very cool!

We had our care conference and Sidney and I decided to stay at the zoo for the rest of the day instead of trying to rush through and then rush through the museum, which we could visit on another day. We decided to attend the second bird show and Sidney volunteered for the first opportunity and got to throw a grape in the air and have an African Trumpeter Hornbill fly up and catch it! Sidney was so excited and received a wristband from the bird trainer and said he is now a junior bird trainer.

Since we decided to stay, we went through some of the animal exhibits a second time which was nice, for example the first time through the giraffe area, they were building a tall shelter in the outside enclosure and then cleaning the inside enclosure so we didn’t really get to see them. When we returned, two were in the inside enclosure and they were amazing!

We took a slight detour on the way home, got dinner at a cute restaurant, Tastebuds, in Mattapoisett, MA and then stopped by Ned’s Point Lighthouse for a quick stop and photo op. The lighthouse was first lit in 1838. https://friendsofnedspointlighthouse.com/