Really kid? Out of all this, that's what you're excited about?

[Kyla]

@Jennyrosity

I remember my uncle taking me to London Zoo when I was about 3, but I don’t remember the animals. Instead I remember that he bought me an orange ice lolly.

I was about four when my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. My mom got me an eskimo pie, and the was the only thing I remembered about it.

When we next went back, when I was eleven, my mom insisted we have eskimo pies and spent most of the trip looking around for a kiosk that sold them. In between, we looked at some animals, I suppose.

[C3]

@lorene

As for the boxes-as-toys, my kids have a crapload of toys. They have everything they need to play with and then some. But for a time, the thing that each was passionate about—and they would fight bitterly over—was one of the attachments to the vacuum cleaner.

A couple weeks ago, my four year old spent all afternoon playing with the little spring-loaded thing from the toilet paper holder. He was pressing it down and launching it into the air. For hours. He cried when I wouldn’t let him take it in the car with him - I was scared I’d get nailed in the back of the head with it.

[Rick]

@congodwarf

My first memory of Ringling Brothers was a trapeze artist falling - not into a net.
The only thing I remember about Parc Safari was being licked by a giraffe. It’s kind of hard to focus on anything else after you’ve had a giraffe tongue on your face.

I understand that they are 18" long and prehensile. Can you verify that?

[TruCelt]

Raced in to work one Monday morning weeks ago in order to be right on the mark when the on-line registration began - The first group to see the new baby lion cubs at the National Zoo! Squee! ! !

I won two spots for the viewing. Which was supposed to be last week, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I had to rearrange everything under the sun in order to do this today, and I still have no idea how I’ll manage to get the presents wrapped and the place cleaned up for Christmas now that I’ve lost the day.

Celtling thought the lions were pretty cool all right, but the highlight of the day?

Jumping in puddles. :rolleyes: Every puddle she saw, and despite Mommy’s protestations. Cold? Wet feet? Who cares?

It was utter bliss, I tell you. So much so that I finally stopped complaining and even pointed a few out to her.

[Nava]

@Annie-Xmas

My then five year old niece came to visit me. I arranged a whole trip downtown with lunch, a movie, and shopping.

She’s talking with her mother on the phone that night. “You kow what the best part was? I got to ride on a big bus and put the money in the box all by myself.”

Kid had never been on a bus before.

I’m living in a town next to Seville; trains (local or middle-distance) are one of the best ways to get to The Big City. One of the last times I took it, it was a middle distance from Cádiz and I sat across from a dressed-to-the-nines lady who was definitely past retirement age. I helped her with her luggage and she confided in me that she was very excited because it was her first time on a train. Her eyes glowed, she giggled with excitement. If I ever get to be that age, I sure do hope I’ll be able to get that excited about new things - she was just lovely.

[Mona_Lisa_Simpson]

When my parents took me to the (Minneapolis ? Toronto?)zoo at age two I loved the monkey house. Loved it to distraction. But all I could tell anyone back home was that the “monkeys plyed with poo poo”. Told my great aunts and grandparents. Told the people at church. Toild waitresses apparently.

Fast forward 34 years. I take my two year old son to see his first movie. Some day I will relate the events that both made us late for the 2pm show and established my son’s credentials as a ham. But late we were so we went to get something to eat at a nearby restaurant. Which became the highlight of his day. He had a pogo (corn dog) which I cut up with my fork.

We went to my Mom’s after the movie and my son said excitedly(this was pre speech therapy) Mom cuck gogo. FUCK!"

Mom laughed and laughed and decided that a) I had it coming after the monkey shit story and b) she got off lucky.

[Autolycus]

@jsgoddess

There was a family at a petting zoo I saw years ago that had just gone for ice cream. Parents and two kids. They entered with ice cream cones. They left with NOTHING.

The goat ate their clothes too?! :eek:

[cwthree]

Back when my horse was at a boarding barn, I took my nieces over there. I thought they’d be excited to meet all the horses. I was wrong. The older niece was bored stiff. For the younger girl, the high point of the visit was seeing one of the geldings take a leak. :rolleyes: