Mara's Birthday part 2

We went to the Dallas zoo the next day since my in-laws were in town. I have never been and people kept telling me it was ok, but Ft. Worth zoo is better. Setting my expectations low, I was surprised. They had a great display for the elephants and lions.

It started out nice, but started to get hot, our pretty Fall weather was already gone in a week. :( Silly Texas weather.

Mara seemed to enjoy herself. All the animals were out and we were able to get good views on them.

Daddy was propping her up to see the Baboons in their habitat.

There are various bronze statues around the zoo, we saw this before the Giants of Africa exhibit and thought it would be cute to get a picture of her riding one.

The elephants were in a huge area and Mara loved to watch them eat and pull hay down from above. She kept pointing at them,I couldn't get a good picture of her pointing but close enough. :)

There is a small restaurant in the African Safari part of the zoo called Serengeti grill. It was so cool, you could eat and enjoy the view of the lions in AC! The lions were lazy and all gathered near the glass to nap. It was one of the coolest exhibits I saw.

We also did the monorail which was neat, seems like you can really see the animals up close. Overall it was a good experience and we couldn't finish it all because Mara got tired so we had to go home and let her sleep it off. We probably will come back again to try and finish the other half of the zoo.