There's nothing like the zoo to keep a 3-year old (and Harri) entertained for almost a full day on Easter Friday. Considering the number of families at the zoo, I think other people also had the same idea....
While the adults (Paivi, Harri and myself) were doing our best at pointing out all the animals, Aslak was usually more interested in running downhill as far away from us as possible. So we took it in turns to chase after him, glancing at the displays as we whizzed by. They did have a very young baby elephant which was adorable, but very hard to capture on camera because it was hiding under its mum.
There were also plenty of birds like kukaburras, lorikeets and turkeys, and not only in their enclosures. In fact we saw the most birds when having lunch; there was a kukaburra eyeing up our lunch from the tree nearby, a bunch of colourful lorikeets perched on the neighbour table's intent on stealing what tidbits they could and a turkey walking around the premises - what a spectacle :-)
and then there was the leopard. The zoo people (obviously with a sense of humour) had placed a relatively realistic looking plastic leopard up a tree in full access of children. The mothers were horrified...
In the evening we treated ourselves to the imax cinema - not only the largest existing imax, but also the largest movie screen in the world. I got vertigo just walking to my seat! The screen was huge and the auditorium was really steep! Obviously it was the best place to watch Avatar. Harri is completely addicted!
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