Every year, TI offers an Employee Day at the Dallas Zoo. This year it was in July, so as you can imagine, it was HOT. We invited some friends to join us and planned to get there early. Even at 9 a.m., it was HOT. We walked around looking at animals first, with plans to stop at the Children's Zoo area when it opened at 10. We were drawn to the turtle exhibit (mostly because it was shady, I'm not ashamed to admit it... it was HOT).
I got a picture of Lila on the turtle statue.
Then the boys - Wyatt and Evan, his friend who is about 6 months older than him. While we were there, a zookeeper changed the turtle's water so there was some activity. The kids were all fascinated with the slow-moving, giant tortoises. I wish we could say we saw lots of other exciting animals, but it was mostly monkeys and birds (where we were at).
We made our way to the Children's Zoo. They have an exhibit where you can be in the cage with the birds. Wyatt wasn't so sure what to think about that!
All three kids enjoyed the large fish tank.
Then we went in to feed the goats. Here Wyatt is saying hello (or something) to one of the goats.
Lila thought it was pretty neat that the goat would eat out of her hand!
Before we left the children's area, we let the kids splash in the stream. Lila understood when we said, "Don't sit in the water."
Unfortunately, the boys didn't quite get it. So Wyatt had to go without his shorts for a little bit. (It didn't take long for them to dry in the heat.) We walked to the other side of the zoo where the big animals were - elephants, giraffes, tigers, etc. But by this time it was REALLY HOT. So we called it a day and left to eat lunch. In a nice air-conditioned building :)
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