Zoo Trip

Last year I bought a 1 year San Antonio Zoo pass on Groupon.com for $30. I knew it was a steal and bought that amazing deal (very glad I did as family passes went up to $70 this year!)! Well, we figured Xia was old enough to enjoy the Zoo, so we finally cashed in our groupon ticket for the SA Zoo pass last week and went:) The weather was amazing and little Xia and I had so much fun!

I pushed her around in the stroller as long as possible until she decided that she wanted to walk around like all the children that were there! She liked the bears, monkeys and birds. At one of the monkey's cages, they were very active and even came up to the glass right in front of Xia! Oh, she thought it was great!

They look a little lazy, but at least they were out! The bear on the right looked like it was eating dry dog food - yum!

Xia talking to the monkeys !

These White Checked Monkeys were sooooo active, swinging around their cage, coming up to the glass... it was so cool! The monkey on the left was licking and scraping a peanut butter jar clean!

Little Miss Xia loved her hat and sunglasses. I can't keep a bow in her hair, but put on a hat and shades and she'll leave them on all day!!! I promise she did smile a lot that day, she is just so serious for photos! She's my little monkey:)

Hard to tell what's going on in this pic, but Xia loved watching the bird on the right ruffle it's wet feathers and let the sun dry him off.

I think she also appreciated the elephants. It was hard to tell as she would just stare at all the other school children that were running, yelling, walking, eating, etc. At home, she's learned to put her arm to her nose and "do the elephant"!

There were so many bright, pretty and colorful birds at the zoo. Xia loved them all!

"Let me lead the way, Mom"!!! Love this next photo!

Xia reading the map!!! LOL!

I learned that she has no fear when it comes to animals! We entered the petting zoo and she just walked right up to the sitting goats and started "talking" to them. She then walked right up to the goats that were walking around and petted it so sweetly. She then chased down another goat that was in the distance! I was very proud of her confidence, but also very proud of her taking instruction. The goats were small and they were nearly at eye level. Xia was so close to them, I was nervous that with one turn of their heads, their horns would hurt her face. So I would say "mama, don't get too close" and she would back off and stand away. What a darling:)

My fearless daughter walked right up to him w/out hesitation!

Xia talking with a seated goat (off to the left). It was hilarious!

"I'm gonna get you"!!

We ended our visit at the toddlers area. Some of the parts need to be worked on and were over grown with weeds. But it was nice and quite over in that section (aka no 1st graders that had taken over the rest of the zoo!) and Xia and I had one area all to ourselves to eat our picnic.

Maybe this is why some of the weeds were overgrown...it's the tots job to mow?!!

picnic time!

We stayed about 2 hours and then it was time to head home! We look forward to going again and next time with Daddy:)