What a sweet kid Tommy is thinking of his friends at the orphanage and asking to take them to the zoo.It's good thing he started to learn Italian since it looks like he's going on that trip with them.
The part about Colin buying peanuts reminded me of my time visiting The San Diego Zoo as kid.The elephants used to walk up to us (we were separated by a barrier) and stick their trunks out to us in hopes of getting peanuts I swear their trunks seem to work like vacuum cleaners when they took the peanuts from us