For mother's day, Scott asked Makai if he wanted to go to the zoo. Makai said yes. Scott worked from *home*, aka the beach, while I took Makkie to the safari zoo. We had such a lovely time! Today the rhinos were no more than 20 feet from the car. It was fantastic. Makai looked for *baby* rhinos to see if they had paci's in their mouths.
The highlight of the day was Makai playing "koo koo", the Israeli version of peek a boo, with two gorillas and the gorillas mocking him. It was such an amazing experience. Whatever Makai did, the gorilla followed. When Makai held his hand up to say hi to the gorilla, he would do the same.
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| Makai finished "koo-koo". The gorilla is covering his eyes to "koo koo" . |
The gorillas caregivers were so impressed with how calm and gentle Makai is, and how well all the gorillas took to him through the windows, that they asked if he wanted to help feed them and pet them. I think I was more thrilled than him. I said yes to which he replied, "mommie, carry you please? mommie, carry you please?"
Unfortunately when the caregivers opened the gate a bunch of israeli kids started pushing and shoving wanting in the action as well. So we didn't get a chance to pet the gorillas. They were afraid the noise and commotion from the kids would scare them. Instead we watched upclose to the caregivers putting medicine in their ears, giving them shots, and feeding them yogurt, cheese, bread, green beans and fruit.
Below is a video of a younger gorilla playing koo koo. At the end of the video you will see Makai giving the gorillas a kiss and the gorilla kissing back. Makai freaks out a little with either the size of the gorillas tongue or the leaf the gorilla decided to try to feed him.
Here's the link to the YouTube video in case the video doesn't play.
So awesome!
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