We started by watching beautiful ducks swim in a duck pond with large goldfish. Then we moved on to the flamingo exhibit. Avery loved them but Emily wasn't impressed and wouldn't get out of her stroller to get a better look.
After the flamingos we headed over to see the bears. Emily liked the bears and thought it was funny they were lazy. This is the American Black Bear, although when I asked Emily was color the bear was she said he was brown. Close enough for me.
Next we went to see the Komodo dragon and the reptile exhibit. Avery absolutely loved seeing all the snakes and of course she especially loved the crocodile. It's her favorite reptile. Emily as usual wasn't interested in this exhibit and kept saying she wanted to see the elephant.
This next animal is called an Okapi and is according to the San Antonio Zoo, "The secret of Africa". I had never heard of such an animal yet as soon as Emily saw it she knew what it was because of the show "Go, Diego, Go". The Okapi was one of the animals featured on an episode and Emily has such a great memory she remembered Diego's adventure with Okapi. I was so proud of her, but of course after her interest wore off all she could think about was the elephant she hadn't seen yet.
We finally made it to the elephant exhibition where we found Lucky the elephant. Emily was so excited she finally got out of her stroller to take a closer look. She was amazed at how big Lucky the elephant is and how much dirt he had on himself. Emily was so happy at finally seeing her elephant that she even played a little game of peek-a-boo with Andrea. If you are wondering what we are looking at in one of the pictures, there was a little squirrel that was playing around at the bottom of pit.
Next up, the beautiful zebras. I myself was excited to see them and so were both girls. After growing up reading about all of these creatures I was so happy both girls got to see them in person. After going through half the zoo I understood that Emily loved all the big animals and hated the small ones. One reason why we don't have pictures of monkeys is because Emily flipped out when we saw them. They were swinging from buckets in their cages and Emily didn't want to go near them and started crying. I got her to calm down only after I told her they were baby monkeys. Then she said, "They are not going to get out mommy?" She was so scared the monkeys were going to come out of their cages. I guess we will never go to a petting zoo.
After an hour of being at the zoo watching all the animals, the girls were getting a little tired. We still trudged on and saw the huge rhinoceros. Avery tripped on the pavement and cried a little but it wasn't anything that a couple of gummy snack packs couldn't fix.
The last leg of our tour included the gorgeous cheetah, the beautiful gazelles and the kangaroos all who did nothing but lounge around on this lazy day. We did see one kangaroo bounce around which was amazing. The biggest disappointment to us all was that there was no lion or tiger to be found, I think they were in their caves, and the zoo didn't have a giraffe.
Of course we couldn't leave the zoo without souvenirs and both girls were excited to one each. Emily, of course, got a stuffed elephant and Avery was delighted to get a giraffe. Then we let them climb around the lion statues which Emily thought looked like Simba and his family from The Lion King. Overall we had a great trip and the girls had a wonderful time.
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