The Houston Zoo is downtown in the middle of all the skyscrapers which makes it pretty cool. There are not many places in the world where you can see an Asian elephant and a 50 story building at the same time. We figured today was a great day to go to the zoo since it is Tuesday and there wouldn't be too many kids there. (School is over, we are trying to get as far away from kids as possible) Well, we found out that we picked the wrong day. Pretty much every day care center and private school in Houston were there with us. Not a great start.
One of the first things that we saw was the Meerkat exhibit. We were pretty excited because we used to watch Meerkat Manor on Discovery all the time. They sure know how to live life...almost all of them were relaxing in the sun the entire time we were there. 
The next exhibit we went too was the Primates. I love this picture because this was the only time he looked at us. 
The Big Cats Exhibit was next and we were happy to see the lions up close. The female did not want her photo taken. :) 
We were excited to get to see a father, mother, and baby elephant. On our way out, the baby was playing with one of those huge tires like it was a donut. I don't think the elephants in the wild get to play with the same thing. 
This African pig just had a baby 3 weeks ago. We couldn't believe that it could have been any smaller. Our cats are definitely bigger than this baby. 
This next animal got out of its enclosure and got within a couple inches of us. We almost thought that we were going to be attacked and make the news. We really were lucky to escape. 
This was one of our favorite parts of the Zoo. If only we could have this much fun.
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Thank you for the great review of your visit to the Houston Zoo. We especially enjoyed the prairie dog video! Hope you can come back and see us again some time.
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I just love prairie dogs too. What a great zoo, you know that LC does not have a zoo! Can't wait to have you home.
Basia is so jealous of you! She is all about meercats these days--she has two little ones that she plays with all the time. We had to stop watching the show after Flower died. Too sad! At least the movie was made before she died.
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