A day at the zoo

It was field trip day to the zoo and Stacy had been looking forward to it all week long. As soon as her bus pulled up to the Zoo entrance she ran to the front to be first in line. She couldn't wait to see the lions, monkeys, giraffes and elephants. She had heard from her big sister that the lion had cubs three months earlier; she hoped she got to see them -- maybe even pet one, even though her sister told her that would never happen.
As her class went from exhibit to exhibit in the Aqua Hall, Stacy couldn't help but wish they would hurry up. She didn't care about the lizards and fish they were looking at. She wanted to get to the big animals.
Finally, after what seemed like hours, her class made their way out to the big pens where the large animals lived. Stacy watched the monkeys swing from branch to branch, saw the giraffes with their long stretchy necks and touched the elephant. But she hadn't seen the lions yet.
She was starting to feel sad that she wasn't going to see them when her class turned the corner and there they were, right in front of her. Mama lion was laying in the grass with two little cubs jumping around her. Stacy couldn't take her eyes off them. They were so small and so very cute!
When it was time to say goodbye to the zoo, Stacy put her hand on the glass that was separating her from the lions as a farewell. One of the cubs looked up and scampered over to the glass, right in front of Stacy.
Then it did the most amazing thing that Stacy had ever seen. It lifted its paw and put it on the glass, right in front of Stacy's hand. It was as if the cub was saying goodbye too. Stacy couldn't wait to get home and tell her sister all about it.