Austin Zoo

We enjoyed a beautiful morning at the Austin Zoo with our friends. All the animals at the Austin Zoo are rescues! So there are not a ton of exotic animals - and they are missing many of the typical zoo animals- but it is still a really neat place!

The three animals that LJ has continued talking about all week are the orangutans, turtles, and tigers.

LJ loved the monkeys!
The turtles were HUGE!!

Evan just enjoying the outing!


Ben and LJ looking at the turtles. 
Ben and Piper next the a turtle- just to show you how big they were!

All the kids staring at the tigers... they were really breath-taking!



LJ keeps saying the tigers were swimming... true!!




LJ, Ben, Dylan, Piper...
LJ and Justin (who was so awesome and helped me with LJ a lot since Barrett couldn't be there!)

The mamas in front of the cougar cage! Haha!
After looking at the animals, we went on a little train ride around the zoo. LJ really enjoyed this!



Mark playing with all the kiddos!

Choo choo!
Practicing frog hops!
And we ended a fun morning with a picnic with all our friends. We will definitely be going back soon!!

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