San Antonio Zoo

Ian surprised me today by suggesting we go to the San Antonio Zoo, and who am I to turn down a chance to see animals, so off we went. It was insanely hot, and we were only there for about 2 to 2.5 hours (and it took us 2 hours round trip to get there) but it was still worth it. We took a lot of pictures but I wanted to post some of my favorites, so I hope you all enjoy without having to sweat like we did :)


These are not actually crocodiles, but like a cousin to the croc. They are the smallest ones around. We just thought it was funny how these turtles were just using them as resting places, but they didnt seem to mind one bit!




Of course there would be some pictures of big cats! This top picture is a jaguar and the bottom is a black leopard, dont you just think those green eyes are freaky! Thats not the flash or anything, thats what color their eyes really are!




You didnt actually think I wouldnt post pictures of my favorite animal of all right now, its the river otter (although let it be known that i love all the otters, sea, river, i dont care)!! I still really dont see why i cant have one of these, they are little and i have a big yard, i think i can build a water area big enough. anyway, i got tons of pictures, there actually were two otters but my favorite 2 pictures only had 1 of the otters in it. I also got some video but dont want to mess with that tonight, so ill do that later. I LOVE THESE THINGS!!!


So these next few pictures are not of animals, but just cool things at the zoo. This 1st picture is an actual banana tree!! But not only did it have the bananas growing from it, it also had that crazy pink thing hanging down. I just thought it was super neat looking but especially loved the bananas since Ian loves those so much!


This was the sign for their toad exhibit, i just thought it was really clever and everytime i would see the sign i would smile. I did check to see if they had cane toads in the exhibit for lisa, but there were none :(


San Antonio has lots of stone and old looking things all around the city (that alamo feel follows you everywhere) so there was a lot of this kinda stuff all over, but what was neat about this is these steps connected 1 water exhibit to another, and they were the "bridge" to get from one exhibit back to the main path, I just thought it was unique, but the steps were actually a decent distance from each other, so they might be tough for really young kids (of course there was an alternate path for strollers, etc, you werent forced to walk on it).

Since i was taking pictures i dont have anything to prove this, and i am sure lisa is thinking i am making this up, but we were near the bird exhibit (which of course i didnt want to go in) and we were just standing outside and a bird swooped down and sat on my head, I about died!!! Stupid birds!!!