San Antonio Zoo

We decided some family time was much needed, so we headed over to the San Antonio Zoo. It was a perfect day for this adventure. Mason was so excited and understood where we were going. I love it! We arrive at the zoo and begin our explorations. We got there a little after 10am so many of the animals were still sleeping or hiding out. We tried the bears first but no luck. We made our way around and came across this little pond where you could feed the ducks and fish. We let Mason give it a try-dad had to help but it was cute to watch. Mason loves the water and all day he would see water and want to explore it. This was just pond 1 of many ponds during the day.

We continued on and saw lots of monkeys, a komono dragon, birds, and finally came to the elephants. One of the elephants was very close to the gate so you could really see him. We spent a good 15 minutes watching the elephants. Mason loves elephants! After the elephants we continued on in the Africa themed exhibits and eventually came to the rhinos. This is next to the rhino exhibit-trying to get Mason to stop for a photo was not easy! He was just too excited.

We finished the African part, which included cheetahs, lots more birds and some fun cages to walk through. Down the hill was an atrium you could walk through with parrots, etc. Robert and Mason went inside while Autumn and I hung out. As soon as you walk in the handler gave Robert a bird, which stayed on his shoulder the entire walk through. So cool!!

Mason did not want to leave, so they ended up walking the atrium again and the second time Robert got handed over several birds from a lady who didn't want them on her anymore. He also got the nectar to feed them. Robert got Mason to feed the birds very briefly. Mason was a little scared but did it very quickly-yeah for fast shutter speeds! I loved watching this moment, I think it was probably my favorite of the day.

Autumn and I just hung out while the boys explored the atrium. Autumn had a great day too and loved seeing everything. Bless her heart she fought taking a nap until the very end.

We eventually made our way over the the toddler area, which is a whole area catering to the little ones. We spent a good 30 minutes in this area, letting Mason watch the fishes and playing in the campground and walkways. We also checked out their beachfront spot which had huge tortoises (real ones!) that you could see. One actually moved for us before we left. The one Mason sat on was fake :)

On our way out we tried the bears one last time and the brown bear was awake and walking around. Mason kept saying he wanted to see the bear but the kiddos were tired and we had to leave. Mason told the bear "bye bye brown bear see you later."
On the way out, I got my family picture.

A pic with my sweet babies.

Overall it was such a great day and I am so glad we did this!

*I should note we made this a full day by doing dinner later and then Robert had the idea to try a new ice cream place. It reminded me of when my college guy friends (gotta love Mando and Andy) took me and two other girls out for "Italian." This ice cream place was in the back of some neighborhood down a dead end street. It was really just someones house. Needless to say those GPS search engines are not always right!