This feels a little rushed, but I suddenly thought of this idea during the matinee performance today! Anyways, please leave positive reviews!
After picking up Sheldon and Amy, Penny starts driving away from the university.
"Where are you taking me?" Sheldon asked.
"We're just going someplace to have some fun. How about a Chuck E Cheese?" She only joked sarcastically but it's the first thing that came to mind.
"No! I had a horrible experience!"
Penny asked, "What's wrong with that?"
Sheldon explains, "For starters, their ball pits has germs in it and my older brother tried drowning me in it! The mascot is very frightening! The animatronics on stage terrify me because the one head blew up! I peed myself when that happened and my sister was laughing hysterically. It was so humiliating and scary that I vowed to never go again."
Penny felt some sympathy for him. "Awww... Ok I guess that's out. Oooh! How about to zoo?"
"I never been to one..."
"You never been to the zoo Sheldon?" Penny asked.
He shook his head.
"Oh there's animals there! You'll love it! Amy you want to go to the zoo?"
Amy who was having a bit of a traumatic experience earlier, did not know what to say. So she quickly nodded.
"Ok, let's go!"
Penny drove herself and the kids to the Los Angeles Zoo. They got out and started looking around. There's so many different exhibits.
"Where do you want to go Amy?" Penny asked the girl.
She only shrugs.
She asked Sheldon, "What animals do you want to see?"
"Kangaroos or koalas," Sheldon replied.
"I don't think they have kangaroos... but I think they have Koalas," Penny says looking at the map in front of her. Let's go."
She took the kids to see the koala bears. There are only a few in the exhibit. Some were sleeping or eating.
But one with the mama and the baby is what Sheldon like the most. The cutest smile on the mamas face as she cuddles with her sleeping baby while laying against the large tree branch.
"Why do you love the koalas Sheldon?" Penny asked out of curiosity.
He replies, "I'm not sure. But they're furry, they smile, and they look like little cozy companions."
"I guess it reminds you of your mom?" Penny asked the boy.
Sheldon thought for a moment and then nodded. He did miss his mother who he clings onto as a baby especially since breastfeeding which he still remembers.
"Yeah... I miss my mommy," Sheldon says sounding sad.
She wrapped her arm around his shoulder giving it a little squeeze.
It was very overwhelming that he was touched two times in one day. But he appreciates the sweet comfort by two people.
Penny turns to Amy, "Amy? How do you like the koalas?" She turned finding her not next to her.
"Amy?" Penny's heart started to pound sending her into panic. But turned seeing a little girl looking to the monkey exhibit that's across from the koalas.
Penny says to Sheldon, "Amy's looking at the monkeys, wanna come and see sweetie?"
He shook his head still looking at the koalas.
"Alright honey. Just stay here and don't wander off. Ok?"
Sheldon nodded and she went over to Amy who's watching the monkeys eat.
"You love the monkeys?"
Amy nodded with a smile which Penny hasn't seen. She remembered that Amy loves and works with monkeys all the time.
"Monkeys are cute," Amy said, "And funny… And I love it when they eat bananas. I love bananas… But they eat them from the side because mommy says that's how good girls do it."
Penny was confused and muttered to herself, "That triggers me a little bit." Then she asked Amy, "You want to go to the insect exhibit with Sheldon?"
The little girl's smile turns into a frown. She didn't want to leave the monkeys, but nodded not wanting to upset Penny.
"Alright. Let's go get Sheldon." She turned noticing the boy is not there. Her heart stopped. She told him to stay there.
"Sheldon?" She calls, but no answer. "Sheldon!"
"Excuse me ma'am? Is that your son in there?" A woman points into the koala exhibit. Penny looked in there finding Sheldon slowly petting a koala.
She gasped, mortified for a couple seconds.
"Sheldon! Sweetie, what are you doing in there?"
He replied, "I wanted to pet a koala."
"How did you get in there? You'll get us in trouble?" Penny said taking out her phone and recorded Sheldon and the koalas who went to cuddle him. She couldn't help but smile over that. Amy watches on looking very confused in a cute way.
"The door to the koalas is open! I wanted to get a closer look!" He says as another koala hugs him like a tree.
Penny couldn't help but laugh. Oh man this is so going on youtube!
After the entire incident, Sheldon got hauled out of the exhibit and went to the security office. The guard was going to ban them from coming back, but after noticing Penny's video had gone viral in the last twenty minutes, he only lets them off with a warning.
So they went to a few more exhibits and grabbed lunch and before they knew it, it was time to go home. They went to the gift shop first.
"Do you guys want anything?" Penny asked the two.
Sheldon immediately took a stuffed koala and hugged it tightly. Amy went to look at the stuffed monkeys about to pick one out.
"You want that?" Penny asked and he nodded quickly still very fond of koalas.
Amy came to Penny with a stuffed monkey in her arms, hugging it tightly too.
She asked, "You want that Amy?"
"Yeah," Amy says quietly and Penny went to pay for them making both kids happy to have their own cuddly companions.