Franklin Zoo Park Trip

Monday, Oct 13 was the Columbus day and a declared public holiday in the states. For this long weekend, most Bostonians usually drive to New Hampshire or White Mountains for the foliage. However, we decided to stay back in our humble apartment so as to avoid the huge crowd and the heavy traffic. We'll probably do our foliage viewing and apple picking next weekend. Thus 3 weeks ago, I have already booked the free zoo pass from the library to visit the Franklin Park Zoo.

After having an extremely filling brunch consisting of the usual American fare of pancakes, toasts, bacons, sausages, omelettes and hashbrowns at Zoe Restaurant - one of our favourite haunts outside our place, we drove 30 minutes to the infamous and "dangerous" Dorcester zone where the Frankin Park Zoo was housed. It was a surprisingly nice visit especially since that we do not harbour any expectations, knowing that we cannot compare it to the standard of the Singapore Zoo. However, we did find the zoo a very welcoming place for family despite its small scale. In fact, we like the cosiness and the less touristy feel. Ry seemed excited throughout the trip. He kept pointing his fingers at the various animals and sticking his little face on the glass windows to look at them. There was once when he stuck his face on the window to look at the gorillas when suddenly a big fierce gorilla walked and sat in front of him to parade for all the visitors there. Ry was startled and moved back quickly but yet he did not cry. What a brave little boy he was!

Ry pointing at the animals excitedly for us to see.

Look at their similar smug faces!

Look at the white cranes behind us!

The big showy gorilla which startled little Ry!

The scenic autumn foliage we chanced upon even though we were not in the mountains!


Ry, our little cowboy!

The only pity was that we did not get to see the baby giraffe, the highlight of the zoo as the temperature was too cold at 13 deg C. However, for a free visit that saved us at least twenty bucks, we definitely enjoyed a leisure afternoon there at the zoo. In fact, we contemplated to return next summer for another visit with our 2 boys then :)