With the skies painted a dismal gray, and my mood darkening to match what loomed overhead, I headed to Santa Ana for the Santa Ana Zoo’s weekend birthday celebration.
What’s that, you say? Santa Ana has a zoo? Yessiree. That it does and this weekend, the zoo turns 56. Fifty-six years of caged monkeys, displayed farm animals and good old-fashioned family fun.
I should have been more excited. I was, after all, headed to a party … but there’s something strangely somber about heading out t