"Bwaaaaaaoooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeh!" Doug made a strange noise, while making faces at the different animals in the enclosure, along with the other 20 people who were doing the same thing. Both Tess and Rachel had lost most of their inhibitions and were gladly making noises and faces along with him. They had visited the polar bears, the penguins, the seals and seen the seal show and were now on to the monkeys, which would need to be their last top as it was nearly 4 and Tess was getting visibly tired. They'd run around quite a bit, and from what Doug could tell, she'd been running around for a few hours before he'd picked them up to go to the zoo as well. "So, what do you girls say we head home soon?"

"No Daddy! Not yet!" Tess protested, "We hardly saw anything!"

"Okay, Tess you may choose one more exhibit to see, and Rachel you can choose one too if you'd like," Doug replied, "but after that we've got to get back."

"Rachel you choose first!" Tess insisted.

"How about the Rhino's?" Rachel suggested. She wasn't a big fan of the smell, but liked the exhibit quite a bit.

"Daddy I want to go see the rhino's now!" Tess called out, grabbing her fathers hand to drag him over to a zoo map. "Look! I found them!"

"Across the zoo, Rachel?" he asked her, shaking his head. "All right, if we have to see the rhino's then I guess we have to see the rhino's."

Tess ran nearly all the way there with Doug and Rachel in tow, looking forward to what she'd see. The crowds had begun to clear out once they'd reached the rhino's and an announcement was made that the zoo would be closing in half an hour. This excited Tess even more and after 10 minutes around the rhino exhibit she insisted on her choice of a final activity. "Daddy I want to ride the carousel!"

"Tess, we only have 20 minutes before the zoo closes, I'm not sure if the carousel is a good idea." He tried reasoning with her.

"I want to go on the carousel!" she squealed, garnering the attention of the few stragglers in the area. "Daddy I want to ride the carousel!"

The volume and pitch of her voice had reached levels that Doug swore could shatter glass, so instead of arguing with her, he picked her up and the three made a mad dash for the carousel. There was time for one ride, and they were the only people still asking to ride it. Tess sat happily next to Rachel while Doug watched from the sidelines after being admonished by his daughter for taking so long to reach the coveted attraction.

"Daddy, are you watching?" Tess called out from her seat. "Daddy! Daddy take a picture of me and Rachel!"

Doug obeyed, trying not to laugh too hard or he'd ruin the shot. He knew Tess would be requesting another trip to the zoo before they'd even gotten home, but he tried to take it all in stride. The three of them climbed into the taxi and sat quietly for a couple minutes before Tess started up again.

"Can we have a snack Daddy?" she asked. It was already 5:30pm, and that meant it had been over 3 hours since they'd had a snack. When they'd first arrive ice cream had been the treat of choice, a couple hours later it had been cotton candy and popcorn, Tess decided she was also in the mood for a smoothie from Jamba Juice, "I want a Jamba Juice!"

"Tess, it's almost dinner time here," Doug said, remembering to add in the 'here' so she'd have a more difficult time arguing that it didn't feel like dinner. "Besides, don't you think Mommy will be a little sad we didn't take her with us if we go home with them?"

"We could get her one too!" Tess said, a grin on her face, she knew how to get her way and had been getting it all day, "Please Daddy? You can call her and ask her what kind she wants and if we can have them! I know she'll say yes!"

"You know, we probably aren't going to eat until like 7pm or later, and Razzmatazz is like my favorite drink right now…" Rachel suggested with a twinkle in her eye. She definitely wouldn't mind having a smoothie before dinner, and if it would make Tess stop whining she was all for it. "I know where there's one really close to the apartment."

"You two are dangerous, you know that?" Doug joked, pulling out his cell phone, "D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S, dangerous."

"I love you daddy!" Tess said in her sweetest voice.

"She hasn't said yes yet." Doug replied, winking his eye at his daughter and Rachel.