We were able to go see the Alamo for a little bit one day. I always imagined it as a HUGE fort and out in the middle of no where... but its in downtown surrounded by huge buildings and the walls are only like 8 feet tall! And honestly, I didn't know too much about it besides "remember the alamo!" which I, of course, remember... but that's it. So it was cool to learn more about it and see inside the fort.
We also walked down to the Riverwalk and walked all around. It was fun to see such a big river in the middle of the city and watch the boats going through it. We ate dinner there as well.
The next day we went to Animal World and Snake Farm zoo. When we pulled up and I got off the floor (I sat on the floor of Jen's van because we had 5 kids in carseats and Josh and Jen and I in the car hah) and looked at it, I felt like I had been there before. Looking around at all the snakes in the cages felt familiar too... Then we saw a video they had playing there of them on Dirty Jobs and I remembered. Josh and I watched them on dirty Jobs and that's how I knew about it. Anyway, There were tons of snakes and lizards and then outside there were tons of cool animals.
We got to watch them feed hyenas, Lions, and cougars. Those are some scary big cats! There were tons of cool birds, a camel, zebra, monkeys, and even peacocks just wondering around.
They also had a petting zoo where you could feed the animals. Ellie wasn't very timid and because we've fed the horses around our house here she knew how to hold her hand flat and let them eat off of it. All the kids had fun feeding the goats, but Carder was the most fun to watch. He went inside the enclosure and touched every single goat.
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