St Louis Zoo

At the baseball game we were told we should head to the Zoo because it was free. They didn’t tell us how great the zoo was and I am so glad we went.

For 5 hours in the heat we walked around one of the best zoos we have been to. The reptile house was huge and had so many reptiles we never heard of or seen before. There was a weird looking soft shell turtle , a salamander called a Siren, and a beautiful Boelens python to name a few.

Highlights were the very active polar bear, and the sibling grizzly bears who were orphaned. We got to chat with the trainers at the sloth exhibit and watched them “train”. We went to the sea lion show and Robbie is a 25 year old 800 lbs sea lion who was born at the zoo. The prairie dogs were cute but they had a surprise wild ground hog trying to get out of the enclosure. Australia was represented with red kangaroos which Brandon was super excited to see.

The primate enclosure was awesome and was versatile to move around the different kind of monkeys and lemurs.

The kids and Josh were too tired and hot so I walked to the Red River Edge on my own to see the African animals. Many weren’t around or hiding as it was so hot , but I got to get close to the three hippo’s.

Some of the enclosures looked small but all and all the zoo was really good, and really educated and preached conservation.

We headed back as the rain came in and spent the rest of the night back at our air bnb where we have two rooms in a families house. We had a chat with our hosts who gave us some brownies and then we watched both soccer games, US vs Turkey and Australia vs Paraguay at the same time. Computer and tv.Leggi altro