When looking at the drive to Mount Rushmore and figuring out how to make it a bit more fun, I realized it was not really out of the way to go through Omaha so we left on Sunday and drove to Omaha so we could spend Monday having fun.
I had heard that the zoo there is amazing and it truly was!
We fed stingrays! Lily was not a fan at all but the rest of us loved petting them and feeding them.
Arabella could not get over how crazy it was that the peacocks were just wondering the zoo. This one was standing right by our stroller after we left the stingrays.
The girls loved the petting zoo.
Bless Peter, he carried Samantha or Lily for a good portion of the day.
Feeding the fish and ducks.
They are about ready to open a new elephant habitat that is really big and they had part of it open. We talked with a keeper here and the Omaha Zoo has some of a group of elephants that was rescued from Africa (some of the others came to Dallas, one of which was pregnant and they did not know it but the baby was born and doing really well. They were starving due to drought.).
The aquarium part of the zoo was really cool!
The butterfly house.
In the massive Jungle building- there were free flying bats in here and a bunch of the animals had open habitats but they could not get out. It was beautifully designed.
Still in the jungle building.
We spent 6 hours at the zoo and did not go to the massive splash pad area and they are opening a huge treehouse/playground area (I mean really big). It is a full day event and I would go back in a heart beat! It is a very well planned out zoo and they animals look healthy and as happy as can be for being in a zoo- many of them were born in zoos so they don't know any other way of life.
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