New Members!

On Saturday, April 16th, Brent played golf with Pops and Uncle Bill for a charity event. During the kids afternoon nap, Kiki and Marcus picked up Wendy then she picked up Wes at the golf course. They hit the road and met Neena at Cracker Barrel off I-20. Neena took Wendy to her home in Longview then drove back to Henderson. She was on the road for a very long time which she hates so I'm thinking she won't do that again anytime soon. Brent got home around 4 and I just knew he would be too tired to go to the Dallas Zoo but he wasn't.

We received some literature from the Dallas Zoo offering our family several perks if we become new members and the offer was too good to pass up. We get free parking for a year, free admission, free monorail and carousel rides and a sneak peek at the new bird show. The zoo closes at 5pm and the show was at 6:30pm which meant we had the whole park to ourselves. This bird show is the same one that you see at the State Fair of Texas at Fair Park so we were familiar with the "acts". However, these birds were newly trained and some did not cooperate. One bird flew up in the tree and wouldn't come down! They were offering all kinds of food but she was not budging! I think the size of the crowd scared her. Beck sure enjoyed it and I think Kinsey did too.

After the bird show, we learned that we could do anything in the park so we quickly went to the camels because I also had two free camel rides. Nobody was there and Beck jumped on the camel and I got on the camel too. I think I was more nervous than Beck! The guy guiding the camel was really nice and stopped the camel so Brent could get some good photos of us.

We briefly walked around and saw a tiger laying down...Beck told us he was hurt. We saw some kangaroos and ostrich but Beck was begging us to take him back to the kids park. At the kids park, they had a sheep out in the open and I wanted Beck to touch him but he wouldn't.

Kinsey chilled in the stroller chewing on Beck's train while Beck played...

We also saw two bunnies that weighed approximately 30 pounds each!!! I've never seen a bunny that big before! They also had pigs and a rooster in this barn that's located in the kids park.

The weather was super nice and we sure enjoyed not fighting a lot of people. So far our family membership to the Dallas Zoo is great! We can't wait to go back and ride the monorail!