Even though my dream of a super power didn’t come true, I can hold out for my kids. Maybe one of them will be able to fly or throw metal things around like Magneto (minus the evil part though). I have been waiting with great anticipation for over 16 months now to see if any kind of super ability will shine in my daughter. Well those months of waiting have paid off. My daughter is a bear whisperer. That’s right, bears do whatever she wants apparently. My wife and I learned this today while at the zoo. This was our first trip to the zoo with our daughter, and what a day it was with the discovery of her super power. I couldn’t be more proud.
The trip started out pretty normal. It was hot, humid, and rained just a little bit as we weaved our way through the giant trees and winding paths through the different animal exhibits. We saw tigers, birds, snakes, birds, frogs, birds, all sorts of dogs, birds, koala bears, birds, ant eaters, and of course more birds. Zoos have a lot of birds these days. Sadly no elephants! Which was one of the main reasons for the trip! Our daughter loves elephants! She walks around and at least 3 times a day makes an elephant sound and brings her arm above her head. She loved the birds, especially when mommy busted out a quarter and we fed them. She loves ducks and got to feed a mixture of ducks and swans. The whole time she is saying, “duck! duck!” When we ran out of food she begged in her little way for more, but alas, we had no more quarters so we moved on.
After 2 hours, we pretty much had walked through the entire zoo and seen all the different animals. We did notice that we missed the bears and they supposedly had a Florida Panther (we had to preface to our daughter that it was not a hockey player, but an actual Florida Panther. She has gone to some hockey practices and games with us, so I wasn’t sure if maybe she thought Stephen Weiss lived in the zoo or something. At least that is what I would have thought.) We walked down the path and noticed that the bear was pretty close to the fence. The enclosure had a fence, then 4ft of space, then another fence. There was also a 6 foot area where there was a swimming area for the bear and separating the visitors was a thick piece of glass. We made our way to the glass, because it was the most unobstructed view of the medium sized bear. Then it happened! My daughter’s super power manifested itself! As soon as she went to that glass, the bear swam over and started splashing! The bear came right over and put his nose up against the glass, as if to say, “Yes, how can I be of service?” I thought for sure my daughter would say, “go and stop evil!” She instead tried to pet him through the glass. Some other kids ran over to see the bear up so close, and my daughter started to walk away. Wouldn’t you know that as soon as she walked away the bear swam away? Further proof of the super power! Then after looking at some bushes, she ran back up to the glass and tried her best growl. The bear looked back, turned, and swam right back up to the glass!!! It was amazing! She loved it and was laughing the whole time. Honestly, i was pretty impressed. For a person so small, and a bear so big, i thought for sure she would be a little intimidated. The bear came up out of the water and shook himself right in front of him. He looked huge in that moment, and she just laughed at him! Here is a look:
Overall it was a very great day, and now I have the great responsibility to teach my daughter to use her powers for good.
With great bears, comes great responsibility.
Oh, and we never did find that Florida Panther... maybe they were hiding some of the actual hockey players?
super powers skip a generation, son I am batman
ReplyDeleteVery funny post. Perhaps Alf is secretly "Krypto", Superman's pet dog. You should call him out on that.
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