What a Zoo!: Visit to the Brookfield Zoo

Prepared with a Macy's Zoo pass in hand, I headed to the Brookfield Zoo looking for a safari adventure and ended up with a lackluster, non-existent animal fiasco.

Seeing that it was such a perfect, blustery and warm autumn day with temperatures nearing 80 degrees, I was shocked to notice that most of the exhibits were animal-free. One lonely lion, a lazy hippo and a proud peacock strutting in a dusty, shrub-laden pen were about the extent of my zoo mission.

The high points of the day were viewing slithering snakes, comical meerkats and cherubic sleeping cheetah cubs tucked away in a stony enclosure.