This really was a great day! Everyone woke up nice and refreshed - especially Andrew after 13 hours of sleep! - and ready to see what adventures would unfold.
We packed Mike's backpack for the day and walked across the street to partake in one of the great American establishments - IHOP. Andrew was certainly feeling the Halloween spirit!
After our yummy breakfast, we walked through a beautiful park to make our way to the zoo which was about 1 1/2 miles walking distance away from where we were staying because we had to cross a bridge over some water that separated our hotel from the park and zoo.
The Ft. Worth Zoo was a wonderful place. The recreations of the animals' habitats were gorgeous! We had the opportunity to see some very playful monkeys.
We caught a feeding of the penguins - which by the way, only 5 of the 17 species of penguins live in the cold! Never knew that little fact. I guess all the penguins that live in the cold get all the good movie deals!
We enjoyed watching the elephants (they have so many!), giraffes, hippos, zebras, and rhinos! And really enjoyed walking into the turn of the century Texas in the Texas Wild! exhibit that featured animals of Texas right along with architecture and great BBQ!
But the most impressive exhibit by far that I have ever experienced at a zoo was the Museum of Living Art. This Herpetarium was an impressive facility all on its own, but the reptiles, amphibians and other creatures that live there were out of this world. Each habitat was very well lit and at just the right heights for viewing, which means it was extremely kid-friendly. We were able to be nose to nose with a Komodo dragon, have our skin crawl while watching an enormous python and cobra, and be absolutely entranced with the swimming 15 ft. alligators.
We also took in the Halloween festivities at their "Boo at the Zoo" event, which cost $3 to participate. It was very nicely laid out with 5 tickets for candy stations, one ticket for a pumpkin decorating station, many unique carnival type games, and a main stage where they had two "acts" running every 30 minutes. We were able to catch both of them. One was a "meet the animals" type of show (very fun!) and the other was just a fun costume parading and boogie-ing time.
After helping close the gates of the zoo, we started our journey back to the hotel. This time going a way that Mike thought would be a little faster. He had spotted a bridge on the opposite side of the park and we made our way to it. Well, it was not exactly a bridge for humans to cross over - there was a recreational-sized train that chugged through the park and this bridge just happened to be one of the bridges for it to cross over the water.
Mike carried Andrew across. And I'm not going to lie to you, this was NOT a good idea. This picture looks like the railroad ties were close together - oh no! I am glad that there was water underneath us to break our 20 foot fall... And my heart just about beat right out of my chest when I heard a little whistle blow and looked up to see the train coming out of the tree line on the opposite side! If we had just been a minute later...but it sure added to the adventure of the day...riiiiiight!
We successfully made the rest of the trek back to the hotel to relax a little bit before walking over to Chili's for dinner (Andrew's favorite restaurant).
We ended the day by walking over to an old car show. Andrew was on cloud nine! Especially when he was invited to sit in the "most awesomest, fastest car there"!
How could Day Three get any better than this!?
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