Elephant pooped

Sunday we went to the zoo and nearly all the animals were asleep except the elephants who were shut out of their concrete habitat.  Phoebe’s top memory was watching one of the elephants poop.  She was quite concerned that nobody came out to deal with it and this was the topic of discussion for a solid week.  Everybody rode the carousel until I realized how much money we were spending on it and then Phoebe and I rode the train and after returning to the loading spot in front of the carousel it occurred to me that the start/stop times of these rides are completely synchronized to hook the kids into a vicious cycle of wanting.