An Expotition

[celticdragonfly]

Robyn, Maggie, Jamie and I went to the Fort Worth zoo today. It is an excellent zoo, and we had a good time. Got to show the meerkats and the jaguar to Robyn, which were of particular interest to her. Got to touch bald eagle feathers and see the bald eagle they were from. Maggie got to see elephants, monkeys, giraffes, kangaroos (kanga AND roo), and more. Lions and tigers and bears, check. The parrot paradise was open, and both kids enjoyed the birds flying around. Both kids got to run around in the play barn in the Texas section. That is a marvelous play area, we must get the kids more time there in future visits. We enjoyed ourselves. And we are now very tired.

We're home now waiting for the plumber installer to come put the new faucet in, then we won't have to use pliers to turn the water on any more. Yay. And Rorik-cat is being unfavorably compared to the mountain lion.

Oh, sorry to the grandparents - I forgot to bring the camera in. We were having a good time, we'll have to take more pictures later.

Comments

Fort Worth

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Oh the Fort Worth Zoo is great fun. We've only been the once and stood entranced by the elephants.

I've not been to the Dallas Zoo but I've heard horror stories about the parking. Have you?

Re: Fort Worth

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Nope. I really haven't done anything on the Dallas side. Too big, too far. Robyn (hm, I need to get in the habit of saying phoenixsinger!) wants to go to the Dallas aquarium, I'm a bit wondering if it's too far and too expensive.

Re: Fort Worth

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

the aquarium is nice but it's down by Fair Park, which is well out of my usual tromping grounds.

Re: Fort Worth zoo (and Dallas)

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

The Dallas Zoo has plenty of parking but it's -- like all such -- a long way from parking to entry gates. And it's also expensive to park. Cheaper actually to park -- free -- at a DART rail or bus point and get a day-fare ticket to ride the rail to the zoo. Rail is fun on its own merits, besides. The Dallas zoo itself is okay but of the two the Fort Worth zoo is the better. (MOST of the Fort Worth attractions are better -- it's like the old ads for Avis Car Rentals: "when you're number two, you try harder".)

Dallas has two nifty aquariums, one at the Fair Park site and an tourist-y bit downtown at the West End. Pricey for individuals, but you can put a group together and bring price per head down by half.

Actually a group of homeschools doing this sort of thing once a month or so would be good for pricing AND social fun-ness -- the symphonies, the museums, the Ren Faire, the Stock Show, DFW-Con ...