So since I can't go to the zoo, I'm going to share some of my most favorite memories and photos of our many trips. And not just to the San Antonio Zoo, but a few others too! Just a little warning, there will be snakes, probably a few at that..
I don't remember my first visit to the Zoo. The story goes something a little like this. I was still little, Dad said about 3 or 4 and we were at the Albuquerque Zoo. Dad set me up on the ledge of the python enclosure and the poor think must have thought I was lunch because Im told he came up to the glass and was tracking me as I walked back and forth along the ledge. Figure that is where my love/hate relationship with snakes originated. The Zoo, well animals for that matter, were our thing. He always made a point to visit one where ever we went.
This is one of my most favorite photos. I'm not sure which Zoo though.
![IMAG7280](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7315/8722547589_c44c8d458c_z.jpg)
I knew that someday I would have kids and prayed that they would love animals as much as I do. Boy did I get lucky. Ant has practically grown up in the San Antonio Zoo. And Lex has been going since he was in my belly if that counts.
I love finding photos like these. I wasn't kidding when I said he grew up here!
![Growing up Zoo2](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1644/23388273144_c3c7d5d34c_z.jpg)
![Growing up Zoo 3](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1596/24016480565_29a405f64f_z.jpg)
![Growing up Zoo](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5792/23933922621_abfde2875b_z.jpg)
I spotted this sweet baby at the San Diego Zoo in 2012. Or was it Houston? I can't remember!
![IMG_1480](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6185/6046022432_580258545e_o.jpg)
This is one of my top 5 favorites at the San Antonio Zoo.
![Western Green Mamba (Dendroaspis viridis)](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3669/13210851743_0922255e57_z.jpg)
I believe this is Bentley the Black Bear.
![asiaticblackbear2](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2381/2401697671_f875f9899a_o.jpg)
Pretty in Pink.
![Flamingo1](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3005/2672828430_1e00a21460_o.jpg)
Another one of my top 5 favs.
![IMG_4216](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4013/4358706276_86fcef395d_o.jpg)
The Sun Bear looks is such an odd looking guy!
![IMG_7001](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8738839170_df60266e1e_o.jpg)
Acting lazy like we dont know shes the fastest one here!
![cheetah](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3229/2954170347_2ccff61cc9_o.jpg)
Flo the Grizzly in 2008.
![grizzly](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2275/2402528418_7aebaa7737_o.jpg)
We found this guy at the Houston Zoo in 2011.
![IMG_1258](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6066/6046015966_d615e2367a_o.jpg)
I love taking my boys to the Zoo, but when my whole family goes, we look like a tour group! There were 17 of us and only 7 were adults. It was a few days after we said good by to day but us older kids had such great memories with him at that very same Zoo.
![IMAG1211](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5810/23390875693_4fe0f217ef_z.jpg)
Well that got a lot longer than expected. I ended up taking a trip down memory lane. I know I have pictures from a few other Zoos somewhere but I could not find them. Tampa, Honolulu and somewhere in New England that I can't remember. Boo. Ill have to dig em up.
When was the last time you visited the zoo? Do you have a favorite animal?
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