Today we went to the St. Louis zoo. www.stlzoo.org
We go every time we visit St. Louis, because 1: it's an awesome zoo; 2: We always have fun there and 3: it's FREE. There is no entry charge -- thanks to the generosity of St. Louis taxpayers. (There are fees for the children's petting zoo, train ride, carousel ride and special exhibits, plus you could spend a fortune on snacks and souvenirs). We knew it would get hot quickly, so we went early to avoid the worst heat of the day. We made it there by 8:30 and headed straight to the primates because Zac loves monkeys. The gorillas and chimps must have been sequestered somewhere, but the primate house was active with lemurs, maquaqs and furry little monkeys. Zac did his best "ooh ooh ooh! eeh eeh eeh! ah ah ah!" sounds. Big cat country was also active. We watched a lion play with a ball and a young leopard, about Zac's age, run up to the fence to entertain his human audience. We saw zebras (Adam's favorite animal), giraffes, antelopes, birds from Asia and Africa, grizzlies and sunbears.
Sadly, the line for the new Carribean Cove exhibit was very long, so we opted to avoid that. It would have been fun to touch and feed live stingrays. Also, we longed to enter the cold Penguin & Puffin Coast enclosure but the line for that was long as well and the kids were melting and melting down, so we skipped that too. Maybe we can return to the zoo before we leave St. Louis. We'll definitely be back in the future. It was soooooo hot by 11:00 -- I dunno, close to 90 I guess, with high humidity --- that we reminisced about the cold the weather we had in Vermont when we were packing for this trip (I remember wondering whether we'd need long sleeves and sweatshirts!).
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