Trip to Fort Worth Zoo

Once again, Justin and I had too high expectations for the zoo.  You would think considering the vast majority of visitors to the zoo are below, say 4 feet tall, that they would build the attractions to where shorter people could see without having to be picked up.  Even better would be if they could see the animals from the stroller without ever having to get out. 
Needless to say, Justin and I took turns picking Cole up and putting him back in the stroller about, oh I don't know, 1000 times.  There were tons of people there.  So yeah, it was a little stressful.  But, eventually it got a little better.  We decided to head to the very end and work our way backwards.  We got there early enough that it actually helped a lot.  There is a Texas Wild section that has animals indigenous (good word, huh?) to Texas.  Guess what they had??  A DEER!  Glory be, I thought we were going to have to set up camp there.  That was worth the price of admission.  Justin sat Cole up on the ledge and just let him watch the deer.  Every few seconds, Cole would point and say "DEER!"  He was so proud!!  We literally stayed there for ten minutes.  It was the best part of the whole day. 
Even when we got him out of the stroller to see the animals, he really didn't care too much anyway. I think he needs action. Yeah, he can see the animals, but they're not DOING anything.  He liked the aquarium type exhibits.  He could actually see the fish swimming around, so he liked those.  I think Sea World would be a good place for him.  Or the Dallas Aquarium.
After the deer we ate lunch, and shortly thereafter Cole fell asleep.  Justin and I just walked around looking at the rest of the animals and let Cole sleep.  That day just happened to be our anniversary as well.  Happy anniversary, babe!  :) 
So here are some pictures of the day (and the evening before, just for grins).  (In case you can't tell the previous sentence is a link.)  I'm sure the slideshow will probably be boring since it's mostly of animals, but it's short, and I got a few pretty cool animals shots.  In fact, Justin took a few of these pics.  So it's not too bad...there's a little icon on the right hand side to make it full size.