The Zoo

Andy and I took Amelia and August to the Dallas Zoo this morning. We had a ton of fun and it was so great to see Amelia get excited about animals she has only seen in cartoons. Now, I haven't been to a zoo in a long, long time BUT I was not that impressed with this zoo.  It had a weird layout and the animals were hard to see.  I am all for great treatment of the animals and giving them a natural habitat, but if you have a zoo you might want to be sure that your guests can see the animals. ha!  I was most disappointed that the elephants had been moved and their new area wasn't open to the public yet.  We heard one - but we couldn't see them.  Sad :(

Here are the only elephants we saw.  

Whoa!  That's a big gorilla!

Gorilla is going to take a nap now :)

Hello Mr. Crocodile. 

There's the REAL crocodile in the background.  She wasn't scared - but I was!  They are creepy!

 August hanging out with the monkeys (and Mommy).  He was a trooper!

Carousel ride before the ride home!  Fun!

The kicker is - with all of the animals and attractions that they had (that we could see) her favorite was a big 'ole tank of FISH!  In the kiddie area they had a tub full of Koi Fish (sp) and she LOVED them.  We literally had to carry her away from them.  Who knew?  We could have just taken her to a pond! HA!