Friday, January 1, 2016

Winter Zoo Visit

January 2015

Everyone knows Texas weather is crazy. Freezing cold one day, 75 degrees the next. Deep in the middle of January, we got one of those beautiful, spring-like days and decided to take a trip to the Dallas Zoo. We have been over to the zoo in Fort Worth several times, but we'd never made it down to the Dallas Zoo. I had always heard that the zoo in Fort Worth was much nicer, so my expectations were not that high. I was very pleasantly surprised! We had a great visit and will definitely return.

We started off visiting the giraffes:
We arrived just in time for the tiger feeding demonstration:
Not a coat in sight on this beautiful January day:
The kids had their own personal discussions with this gorilla:
My little monkeys with some monkeys that don't move around quite as much:
After checking out many more of the animals, we finished our trip to the zoo with a couple of slushies. From there, since we were so close, we decided to try out a Dallas icon, Fuel City Tacos. As the name implies, they are located in a gas station in South Dallas, but make some delicious, traditional Mexican street tacos. I tried a chicken taco and a barbacoa one, and Tommy tried a couple of other varieties. They were delicious!
 
This weekend definitely didn't feel like the middle of January, but we definitely had more winter weather in store.  Stay tuned!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You can't beat Texas in the winter. Perfect weather for a fun zoo outing. Love, Mommie Dearest