Since our family purchased a zoo membership back in December, we had it as one of our summer goals to visit the zoo again. On this visit, Andrew, Sarah, Abby and Ben joined us for their first-ever visit to the Houston Zoo.
The three oldest kids looked at the map and stated which animals they most wanted to see.
Because we got into the zoo a tad early with our membership passes, the sea lions hadn't even come out to play yet when we first got to the sea lion exhibit. Our several minute wait proved to be quite worthwhile when we got to see the sea lions race out of the door and belly slide down the ramp into the water!
Seeing the flamingos was another early highlight.
Abby and Jaden gave us their best flamingo pose.
Other highlights included seeing a porcupine relatively up close,
visiting the petting zoo,
and pretending to be prairie dogs!
Sitting on these bison made for a perfect mid-morning rest break.
Our family can't ever visit the zoo without riding the carousel. Cody and Jaden always enjoy planning out which animal they want to ride on. Mommy and Adley joined in on the fun too!
We loved seeing how God has created each kind of animal to be so unique! Adley was at a fun stage for this zoo visit. She was very aware of what she was seeing and even made some animal noises to match some of the creatures we saw.
The day was a typical muggy July day (although not as terribly hot as we feared it might be). By late morning, the zoo's splash pad was a perfect refresher!
We ended our zoo time with a picnic lunch and an elephant sighting on the way out.
We successfully wore all the kiddos out by the day's end. The consensus all around is that it was a great day!
