Z is for Zoo #atozchallenge

There was that time Ollie wanted to go to the zoo.  His mama had errands to run and things to do so she couldn’t take him.  He very much wanted to go though. He said he read a book in school about zoos and all the fantastic animals they had there.  Mamma told him he’d have to wait until the weekend.  So he waited.  And he waited.

On Saturday with his knapsack of lunch and other things Ollie and his mamma went to the zoo.  He saw all the animals and went to the gift shop to get a stuffed turtle.  Ollie likes turtles.  While his mama took some pictures Ollie disappeared for a while.  A little later the zoo had to be evacuated because someone unlocked all the cages and set the animals free.

The never apprehended the culprit but Moonwater Meadow has an unusually large population of elephants, giraffes and tigers.  And all of them happen to like Ollie’s mamma’s chocolate chip cookies, treehouses and pizza.  Some of them like video games and some of them like to play pirates and astronauts.  Its awfully difficult to fit a giraffe in a space suit and the elephants prefer to be the pirates but they don’t like wearing the hats and what’s a pirate without a hat?

The tigers mostly stay in the trees but comedown to give rides to Ollie and his friends in exchange for peanut butter sandwiches with they trade with the elephants for extra cupcakes.  Elephants like cupcakes but tigers like them even more.

And so it went that Moonwater Zoo became a skate park for Ollie and his friends to play in and no one questioned why there were so many new faces at school.