Ever since we moved to East Tennessee last fall, Mary has been wanting to visit the Knoxville Zoo so we planned to do so on Thanksgiving day.

A call from our Tellico Village friends Kathy and Keith inviting us to feast with them precipated a change of plans so we decided to make our zoo trip on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

We bought our tickets on-line and on a blustery November morning, we drove to Northeast Knoxville to the zoo.  Now understand that our North Carolina Zoo was huge and the habitats often requires binoculars to study the animals.  The Knoxville Zoo occupies roughly 1/4 of the area of the NC zoo but much to our suprise, the habitats were fairly large and had little of the “Caged animal” look of the zoos of our youth.  We really enjoyed our stroll through the various areas and noticed a significant amount of work on new habitat areas for a number ofnbsp;nbsp;animals needing more space to roam.nbsp; The turtle bog was a favorite of Mary’s as she never met a turtle she didn’t like.nbsp; br /br /It was chilly and a number of animals were not on exhibit due to the weather but all-in-all, a great day and we’ll be back.