Fun at the Zoo, and Farewell to Nikita

Today Halie took the kids to the zoo. It was pretty warm out today, but they seemed to have a good time anyway and definitely spent some time inside the air-conditioned penguin exhibit.  One animal they enjoyed for probably the last time is Nikita, the male polar bear at the zoo.  He's being transferred to another zoo, and our zoo will instead get some koalas bears.  Koalas are fine, I guess, but they'll probably just be hiding in some tree and hard to see.  But the real problem is losing Nikita.  He is awesome.  If you've ever been to the zoo and the underwater polar bear part, you've seen him swim right up against the glass and then push off the glass with his huge paws and then do it again.  It's great.  But he's leaving.  The other polar bear is staying, but she mostly just stands around and is boring.  But she's staying with us, so the good news is that if boring polar bears are your thing, you can go to the zoo anytime, and you won't miss out.