Apr
10

Guest Blogger Series: Meet Debbie O’Neal

Posted by in Animal Info,Birds,Carnivores,Children's Zoo,Elephants,Giraffes,Guest Blogger Series,Mammals,Memories,Primates,Zoo Births

This might be of extra interest to those of you who came over Spring Break. The O’Neal family did something really cool — they decided to take the MetroRail to get here.

Our Spring Break Zoo Adventure

We accepted the mission of entertaining our 7 year old granddaughter during Spring Break.  At  the very top of her wish list was going to the Houston Zoo.

We started off our Spring Break Zoo Adventure by a quick walk from our house over to hop on the MetroRail train, zipped down the line to the Houston Zoo stop, took a short walk around the sparkling McGovern lake and straight into the zoo entrance with our recently renewed Zoo Membership.  No circling the parking lot waiting for a spot, no waiting in long lines to get it…just enjoying the sunshine and the bright blue skies and looking forward to seeing all our favorite animals.  We were already having a great time together.

One of our first stops was the giraffes. Here you can see they were out enjoying the day by lounging around. So silly to see them all sitting down…

We just love all the new baby animals we get to see at our Zoo.  We’re keeping a close eye on the Zoo’s new Elephant Blog to know when Shanti welcomes her new baby.  Did you realize her baby will weigh close to 300 lbs when it is born?

Our granddaughter observed that it was no wonder Shanit’s sides were bulging!


After wandering though the Primate exhibit, stopping off to see the cheetas, bears and lions, we finally arrived at the Children’s Zoo.  Our granddaughter was a whirlwind of activity trying to take it all in.

Here’s our girl pretending she was a prairie dog  and getting to pop up in their habitat.

This cute prairie dog seemed to be waving hello to her.


Sitting pretty in the Eagle’s Nest…


And watching the magnificent Bald Eagle up close.


There was lots of other fun things we did inbetween!

At the end of our day our granddaughter said the absolute most fun she had ever had was spending time with her grandparents at the best place on Earth….The Houston Zoo!

Written by Debbie O’Neal, Photos by Debbie O’Neal

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