Our family day - Binghamton zoo

Today was our family day, Dave took the day off from work and we decided to head over to the Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton.  If I remember correctly, it is the oldest continually operating zoo in the United States.  We had not been to the zoo since last summer, so this was something that the kids were very excited about doing.  It was a gorgeous day, very cool, a little overcast, so we were not baking in the sun!  When you first enter the zoo, the petting area is immediately in front of you, so of course we had to make that our first stop.  There were at least 10 goats, some adults, some kids (ha, pun intended) and they were very friendly, not aggressive, and very agreeable to Caleb giving them some very forceful 'pat pats' on their backs.  There are childrens slides, like the Little Tykes version, all in the goat area and they do like to play on them!!  Molly and Caleb got good laughs out of watching them jump and climb all over.  We unfortunately (or fortunately) didn't have any quarters to get food to feed the goats.  There were some other folks who did, and that is when the goat aggression began!!  They are very pushy and will go right up to the dispenser and eat the food out before you can get it in your hand.  That was when we decided to leave the petting area and move on to other sights.