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So many animals (and kids!), yet so little time…

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, one of the highlights of our Thanksgiving travels was meeting up with my cousin and her family.

We decided to meet at the San Antonio zoo on Friday and it turned out to be a perfect day for it. It was a tad crowded but manageable.

She has 6 (going on 7) children so most of the crowd was us… Oh, I tease (and she doesn’t mind!). I did feel like we were counting heads the ENTIRE time. And making sure we had the right children with us. (NINE children to keep track of in a busy zoo. Basically, my brain hurt hard after. I have NO idea how she and her husband do it.)

Despite all the counting, we had a great time and I was SO happy to meet her two “baby” girls that I had not seen before. And to hug her and catch up a bit. Our time together was WAY too short but at least it was some.

LYLAS, sweet Misty.

Okay, now some photos.

P.S. Two tries to get a decent pic of all the kids together and both were mostly fails. Oh well, we have the memories and bribe material for later in their lives…

Monkeys by the monkey cage. 😉

First try. Oh my.

K was a bit obsessed with this bird. She talked to it for about 10 minutes.

She also carried around left-over tickets from the TX state fair almost the entire time, saying

“My tickets!!!”

Really close to this hippo, in water. Very cool.

Me and my cousins, Misty, a year older than me and Amanda, a year younger. (they are sisters, as if you couldn’t tell.) 🙂 And also sisters to me.

Hollis (Misty’s 3rd child) and B and G hung out the entire time together…

Feeding time at the zoo… hardee har har!

K gave up the tickets and became obsessed with the zoo map after that…

Another attempt. And why yes, my daughter does have her hands down her pants. Arghh.

Someone’s legs got tired.