Boise Zoo

 We have another small zoo here in Boise. It's a lot like the Tucson Zoo in that it is much smaller than zoo Atlanta, it is mostly full of toddlers, and it's in the middle of a city park. This one might even be smaller than the Tucson zoo, and certainly has more meager exhibits, but it's fun and they have a few cool things that Tucson didn't.
For example, they have a small boat ride! It's a small solar powered barge that takes you from the main entrance to "Africa" passing foxes, lemurs, and ducks. They charge a dollar to go on, but it's donated to conservation.

This is Ames right after our passage. It was pretty hot and she really only wanted to see giraffes.

When you are a toddler, wallabys are kangaroos.  Here are "Kanga, Woo, and other Kanga"

The primate exhibits are pretty terrible compared to the digs at the Atlanta Zoo, but ours has a tiny baby! The docent said this mama was very proud and always positions her new baby right up front where everyone can see it.

The zoo has a small butterfly garden in the summer months. You walk inside and there are bunches of flowering bushes and trays of fruit laying around. They give you a guide sheet so you can identify the butterflies you see. They told Amy that sometimes butterflies land on you and not to be afraid. She wasn't at all afraid and spent about 45 minutes trying to get butterflies to land on her. "Here butterfly! Look at my arm butterfly!!"

Here she is luring them with a leaf. 

Here she is trying to act like a tree. Note her branches. It sort of worked, one landed on her dress. 

Her favorite part of the zoo was the animatronic dinosaurs. These were all over the zoo. They're pretty huge, and they move realistically (I guess) and they roar. 

Rrrrrrrrrroar!

I'm all for conservation, but this is ridiculous.