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  • Ever had a vacation that doesn't quite click on all cylinders? That happened to us a few years ago in November when we decided to visit Arizona on the cheap via a time-share offer (you know - the kind were you have to listen to "the talk"). We got the talk over with on the first day. Unfortunately my wife was in tears when I said no because she had bought into the sales ploy that plunking down thousands of dollars for a piece of a resort on a posh Scottsdale golf course was better than a similar offering in Breckenridge or Kauai. The trip to the Grand Canyon was memorable in a no-see-em sort of way. You arrive at the rim to behold a magnificent panorama and...nothing! A snow storm and clouds in the canyon had completely obliterated the view. We did have a fun snowball fight. Sedona shone in all its touristic glory (it really is a beautiful place, though). I thought I felt a jolt of energy in one of its famous vortices, but then realized I was just light-headed from chasing my kids up the hill. Which brings me to the Phoenix Zoo - the attraction that saved the trip for my son and I. What do you do with an active boy when his sisters and mom want to go shopping and tan by the pool? Yep! That's right! Zoo therapy. Let me start the review by saying I spent half of my childhood at the San Diego Zoo which set the bar impossibly high when used to benchmark other zoos. However, it also instilled in me a life-long love of the zoo experience. I've taken my children to zoos in dozens of cities across the US and in Europe. The Phoenix Zoo is one of the best. It's a perfect zoo at which to spend three hours and feel like you've seen about everything. The walkways meander easily through different animal habitats and I was surprised and delighted to see that bikers and skaters are allowed. Very smart! I was relieved that it was November and not August. The thought of walking around the place with the temperature at 115 deg F is daunting. The zoo has some special highlights that bear mentioning: - The walk-through monkey exhibit. They frolic directly over your head via a system of ropes that serve as the monkey highway through the exhibit. I was amused to see the hand sanitizer and wash stations at the exit. Omygosh! Monkey germs! Many in our over-sanitized culture would be shocked to see equivalent European exhibits where they allow monkeys to sit on your shoulder while you feed them monkey food. - The Wallaby Walkabout. Uber-cool for the under-ten contingent. - The Arizona Trail. It's always great and instructive to see indigenous critters in a pseudo-indigenous environment. When we visited, the coyotes were being particularly cooperative in a game of hide-and-go-seek with my boy. The coolest thing in the whole zoo? The tamarin exhibit! These tiny primates share their enclosure with...whodathunkit...chickens! Why chickens? It's a case of the hens guarding the monkey house. The tamarin's inquisitive nature makes them easy victims for Arizona's scorpion population. They pick them up, get stung and get sick. Chickens just happen to like to eat scorpions and are immune to their venom. When my son found this out, he spent an additional twenty minutes looking for scorpions. Either those barbed beasts weren't being forthcoming or the chickens had done an A+ job. I'd highly recommend the Phoenix Zoo as a leisurely and instructive afternoon's activity for the whole family.
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