While all four grandparents were still in town together (G&G Gant stayed on after G&G Jasper left), Drew took a vacation day and we all headed to the San Antonio zoo. We had not been to San Antonio with the boys before, and with all the rain we got over the weekend we opted not to do a muddy pumpkin patch. The grandmas were quick to get into the spirit of the day.
Knowing only that it is a good zoo (nationally), we were pleased with our trip. Once the Africa exhibit is totally done, that should be awesome. As it is, we saw lots of pretty birds, including flamingos. 
The animal habitats are surrounded by native plants that are fabulous! It makes the setting so lovely and lush. Jasper isn’t into the bears. 
But monkeys make him climb up on the fence! This momma had a baby monkey she was carrying around with her. 
Jasper also liked pushing the stroller. Generally he’s good, but he honestly cannot see ahead unless he’s looking around the stroller which generally means he’s pushing it in one direction or the other. It’s sometimes dangerous, but there weren’t many people at the zoo this day – so we let him blow off some steam for a little bit. Of course, once he hit a point where he was wildly upset if you even tried to redirect him, we realized we had pushed him way beyond hunger and beyond lunchtime and had to find a place to sit down and eat quickly. Once we did, he was a much happier camper. phew!
Jasper loved finding a Nemo fish in the aquarium, and I heard about it all the way outside where I was keeping watch over the stroller. I don’t know who won the staring contest here, the frog or Jasper.
Outside the zoo is a little train. Jasper caught wind of this as soon as we arrived, so of course we had to plan time into our trip so we could ride the train before we left. It was a fairly pleasant ride (with a cooling breeze) that I do not feel compelled repeat. Jasper was interested for maybe the first half of the trip and then was saying, “I’m done, dad.” Oh well.
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