Children’s Book Of Festival 2018

Sunday, another hot day.  Children’s Book of Festival was held at Orange Coast College which only 10 minutes from our house so we decided to check it out.  It took quite a bit of walking (thru the big crowded packing lot and the swap meet) because the school is big and we had no idea where it’s located; there’s no sign on the way either.  We found the direction signs only when we got near the event, which is not really helpful!

But we finally found it; there’s lots of booths with books but William only cared for the stuffs on the tables: he got some stickers, candies and rubber bracelets.  We passed by the Petting Zoo, he cut thru the line and went to the door but I caught him on time.  The line was long so I told him “Next time!”.  He seemed to be ok with that but after we stopped by a few more booths ( he touched the snake), he ran back to the Petting Zoo really fast; I had a hard time chasing him.  Luckily the line was shorter this time so we stood in.  The admission is free but if you want to by the feed for the animals, it’s $2.00/cup.   They had 2 ducks, 1 donkey, 1 llama and the rest are goats.

William loved feeding the animals.  They seemed to be very hungry.

 

William loves spinning the wheels
I can’t believe he kissed the snake!

 

William and Dad
Beautiful white Llama

 

 

First Time To The Zoo

Saturday Morning.

We’ve been reading the book Zoo Animals almost every night, and I realized that we have not taken him to the zoo!  What a terrible mistake so we decided to go today; there’s a small Santa Ana zoo which is around 15 minutes away from our house.  He was so excited to get ready!

More pics: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fS6S6nG9nex8UCM86

Zoo entrance. A nice gentleman offered to take a picture for us. Thank you!

What can we find in the zoo? what animal? – I asked while we were on the way there.

Dog! – William replied after a pause of thinking.

OK, what else?

Sheep!

What animal has a long neck?  He could not remember, so I reminded him “Gi…”

Giraffe! – He said.

But too bad we could not find giraffe at this small zoo.  This zoo has lots of monkeys, some birds, camels and few other animals.  It’s really a small zoo!

Selfie time!

Admission fee: $33 for 3 of us.  (Annual membership for a family of 4 would cost $99, which is valid at at most all zoos).

After we paid entrance fee and got in, he looked around, sat on a chair and said “I want to go home!”.

He didn’t care much about the animals, he loved to touch the metal boxes that they put through out the zoo.  At some point he liked to watch the monkeys fighting.  I tried to persuade him to take the little train; he said no at first but after he saw one passing by, he said yes.  (It requires 3 tix per person, $1.5 per ticket so $4.5 for each person).  William was waiting patiently with us without running around for the next train to come, which is a really good behavior.  But when we got seated, the train conductor started to talk, William cried.  I guess it was so loud for him and he didn’t expect to hear that.  After a few seconds of comforting him, telling him everything is gonna be ok, then he stopped crying.

He touched this box whenever he saw one!

William did not seem to enjoy the zoo or train very much.  We planned to go the San Diego zoo but after seeing his reaction at the zoo today we’re not sure if we want to take him back to the zoo any time soon.  It’s 2 hours drive to San Diego zoo and if he’s not enjoy much then it’s not worth it.

The Farm

Got the tickets for the train
On the little train