Mama Takin' Us To The Zoo.....

Yesterday was family zoo day--great minds think alike (Jason & Leah). Weather was great...we only got a little hot as we were leaving. One of Andrew's friends had given him passes for his birthday so we spent almost 5 hours there (picnic lunch included) and it only cost us $2 for a coke that Blake bought (because I had been too smart and froze our water bottles to keep them cold for lunch and they hadn't fully defrosted yet.) They have a special dinosaur exhibit going on. They have robotic dinosaurs throughout the park that move and roar at you. Andrew liked them but "they were loud" which explains all the pictures of him covering his ears!

I decided that we were going to take a different way through the zoo this time so we went to the Texas Wild area first. For those of you unfamiliar with the Fort Worth Zoo, the Texas area is down a LONG trail with really nothing on it. We usually save that for last and by that time we are hot and tired and don't really want to make the trip. So yesterday, we actually had energy to see the whole thing. And it was like seeing a whole new zoo. I had always stopped at the petting zoo and then left the Texas area thinking that the only thing farther on were shops. WRONG. We ended up wandering through the entire state of Texas with interactive exhibits, animals (including all the big cats that Ally did her report on and we didn't think the zoo had), an underwater viewing tank, a "bug cave", and lots of air conditioned areas. Pretty cool. Sharla, next time you guys go, don't stop at the petting zoo, you miss the best part!