Come have Breakfast with the Elephants!
In just TWO DAYS — this Saturday morning, June 5th from 8:00 – 10:30 a.m., join us at the Houston Zoo’s Elephant Open House. If you’ve never been, it’s really quite the way to spend a morning. I mean, who do you know who comes in to work or school on Monday able to talk all about being with elephants over the weekend?
If you’ve ever peeked inside the windows of the big, new McNair elephant house and wondered what it really looks like from inside, what goes on with the elephants behind the scenes, or what it takes to care for them on a daily basis, this event covers it all. But in addition to that, you get to be up close and personal with the elephants.
The morning starts out with a little nosh –continental breakfast –while watching a training session. Then for the next hour and a half the entire elephant barn is open to you. In each stall there will be a different theme — the many things used to enrich the elephant’s daily life, husbandry practices, how we train and why it’s so helpful.
What’s more, the kids can help us give an elephant a bath! And each person will be able to get a moment of hands on greeting with these magnificent animals.
And that’s not all… Elephant crafts and artifacts will be available for purchase, and a raffle will be held for a masterpiece painted by one of our elephants! That’s right, an elephant will paint a work of art right there before your eyes and we will raffle that very painting right then and there.
With the addition of our newborn, Baylor, it’ll only add to the treat. He is full of energy and happiness, running around celebrating life and enjoying everything that’s new to him — which IS everything!! He’s best described as completely joyful and is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face that you just can’t wipe off!
So come an hour before the zoo is open to the public. Beat the traffic, park easily, enjoy early morning temps. Meet our keepers, take your photo with Methai and get the chance to see Baby Baylor first hand. It will be a morning that promises to be truly spectacular. But hurry, tickets are selling quickly and there’s only 48 hours till event time!
For more info and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.houstonzoo.org/elephant-open-house/
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$55 to wash an elephant seems like a bargain to me! If you don’t want to pay, don’t pay – stop whining. Be happy that regular admission fees are so reasonable so you can still enjoy seeing the animals. The Zoo is an incredibly expensive place to run and you are fortunate that the admission tickets are not as astronomical as they are at places like Sea World.