Penguin Days At The Dallas Zoo

January and February are Penguin Days at the Dallas Zoo, which means $5 admission (and Makin is still free!) so when we saw the weather forecast, we decided we needed a fun family outing. (We hope to make this a yearly tradition when we have a warm-weather day in the winter. Last year we missed it since we were recovering for Makin's surgery etc. but we did go two years ago.)

I just love the excitement at these ages. They were so pumped to be going to the zoo. The weather was supposed to reach 74 degrees so it was PERFECT. AMAZING. GORGEOUS.

I glanced at the website the day before and noticed they had a few zookeeper talks throughout the day and thought that might be fun to try and catch if we could. We love all knowledge and facts we can learn! And boy did we enjoy seeing those! The lions are trained amazingly well. As in, as good as or better than your well trained dog! I never realized this was the case with lions. At two of the talks they mentioned how good it is that the animals are trained so they can give them shots etc when needed without needing to sedate them.


One of my favorite parts of this zoo is that you can feed the giraffes. I mean really!?! :) At first Makin was not sure he wanted to dare try it, but he bravely held out his leaf of lettuce, the giraffe took it and he was completely elated and yelled excitedly, "He ate mine! He ate mine!" The nice zoo keeper even brought out an extra leaf or two so I could catch both kids in front of the giraffe. :)

The elephants talk was my favorite. We basically had a one-on-one chat with one of the zoo keepers and she answered any and all questions and we even asked her some just regular zoo keeper questions and told her to check out our favorite zoo in Omaha! :) They threw apples for the elephants to eat which was fun to see also.









One of the many kid-friendly parts of the zoo...climbable statues everywhere! :)

Loving exploring the zoo. One first for all of us (I think) was seeing a koala!

Couldn't have asked for a better trip to the zoo! :)