Lea with grandma & uncles at the zoo

Today we both took a well earned day off and went with Edith and our niece Lea to the zoo, an outing we managed to squeeze into a perfectly sunny 4-hour interlude between thunderstorms. It would have been nice to ride in the wagon intended for the soon-to-be 5-year-old Lea ourselves, but at least she enjoyed it for the last 100 meters.

And we saw Berlin's new elephant baby, 1 1/2 days old, on his first outing, even if difficult to spot between his mother's legs and under her belly and behind the crowds there for the new star of Berlin's animal world. (The TV crews were there, so there will certainly be good pix on the news tonight.)