The Zoo

Every year the Dallas Zoo runs a special in January and February.  Admission is $5 a person instead of the normal $15.  I found out about this on the last weekend of February.  Lucky for us, it happened to be a beautiful weekend.  We called our friends Wil and Alycia and spent the a nice sunshiny afternoon enjoying some animals! 

Ready for her first trip to the zoo (from outside the world anyway)

 The camera was zoomed in from trying to take a picture of some baboons.  I turned to take Olivia's picture and this is what I got.  Close up!

 Some trainers were throwing food to the elephants, so they were doing tricks

We tried to get a family shot with the elephants in the background.

Olivia is doing her head tilting.  One of her many new favorite things to do.

Take 2

You can feed the giraffes.  We didn't, but we enjoyed getting a close up look.

Michael had her in the K'tan for a little bit, but then it was nap time so back to the stroller she went.

Michael wanted to see the lions

Then we went on the gorilla trail

We stopped to look at the flamingos and had a photo shoot as well.

This is Olivia's other new trick--sticking her finger in my ear.  Delightful.

Next we went to the children's section.

We saw the largest rabbit I have ever seen in my life, a pig, some horses and some coy fish.

Olivia wasn't interested in taking nice pictures for any of those.

She did go in and see the goats with Michael.

Overall it was a good afternoon.  I'll be honest, it's no Columbus zoo.  But there are very few zoos that are as good as the Columbus zoo since Jack Hanna is from there.  We've heard the Ft. Worth zoo is better than the Dallas one so we want to check it out sometime.