We Went To The Ft. Worth Zoo Today

[SlowwHand]

Ft. Worth zoo is nice. Good place for the animals, as great expense and care has been taken to provide a natural habitat.

It was hot. I mean jungle damned hot. About 95f with humidity a balmy 55% or so. Could have been worse, but it would have been worse without me.

I parked at a parking lot off the zoo grounds.
At a regular park, I think it was.
Saved myself 5 dollars.
It was also a quarter mile away from the start of zoo parking, which was another good quarter mile to the gates.
When we got to the gate, it was posted that the parking fee was included in admission.

I don't know what's with the animals.
There was this lion laying with his head in the recess of a cliff wall, unmoving.
A tiger, that wouldn't shut up.
Don't these animals come from places of heat?
I think they were burning up, too.

Playful had her camera with her. That was real good.
"Oh look, Sloww. Hold on while I take some pictures of this Peruvian turtle."

"Yes, Playful. (whimper) That's a very nice looking turtle. (sob)

After 3 hours, I was exhausted. Done in. Dragging ass.
I paid 2 dollars a piece for us to ride The Yellow Rose of Texas mini train back to the gate.
So I only didn't save a dollar. 4 dollars spent on the train, 5 not saved parking.
We still had a half mile to walk.

I like zoos, and this was fine; but next time it will be in April, or October. Not August. Not here. Not me.

[LordShiva]

Animals

[Verto]

Zoos are an abomination. Animals weren't meant to live in that kind of ****.

[SlowwHand]

Cry me a river.

[BlackCat]

Well, if you had used public tranportation you would have saved both gas and parking fee .

[Lonestar]

Did you look at the Prairie Dog town?

Man, the science museum they have in Fort Worth use to be cool. They had Cavemen performing brain surgery. Now it's all "It's a Discovery Center for kids!". I always thought the wax cavemen were more cool.

[ColdWizard]

Only a texan would wander around outside in August.

[Winston]

Zoos are an abomination.

Yes. Animals should confine themselves to standing around for a few months and then being eaten.

Anyway, I don't see how logging off of Poly and going to the zoo makes for much of a change. I think even their average macaroni intake is lower.

[SlowwHand]

I saw a meerkat in person. I don't know how I forgot that detail. I sure did. I was about 10 feet away from them. They looked like on television.
No communication collars on them.

[Dis]

didn't know they had zoos in Texas. Figured everyone had animals roaming about their yards.

[BlackCat]

:muuh:

we need a cow smilie

[SlowwHand]

Put it on your list.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Re: We Went To The Ft. Worth Zoo Today

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I parked at a parking lot off the zoo grounds.
At a regular park, I think it was.
Saved myself 5 dollars.
It was also a quarter mile away from the start of zoo parking, which was another good quarter mile to the gates.
When we got to the gate, it was posted that the parking fee was included in admission.

HAW HAW.. that's why you get for being a cheapskate!

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by Dis
didn't know they had zoos in Texas. Figured everyone had animals roaming about their yards.

Yes schmoooooohead! We all have cows, chickens, horses and of course pleanty of cowdogs as well as we all wear cowboy hats and boots!

Ft. Worth Zoo Awesome Used to take the girls there when they were young.

[Zkribbler]

Re: We Went To The Ft. Worth Zoo Today

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I don't know what's with the animals.
There was this lion laying with his head in the recess of a cliff wall, unmoving.
A tiger, that wouldn't shut up.

Big cats sleep about 95% of the time.
Consider yourself lucky that the tiger was awake.