Family Vacation

We got an opportunity to get out of town for a few days last month and take our first "2/3 family vacation". I call it 2/3 since Hunter and Palmer stayed with their grandparents. We took over 100 photos on our 3 day trip so I'll break it up into a few posts since it takes so long to download the photos onto this blog page.
Here's the first stop! The Snake Farm...
The Snake Farm is a hole in the wall stop on the side of I-35 on around New Braunsfels. It's got hundreds of exotic animals, but it's primary focus is on snakes. Because Alyssa is so in tune with the animals we thought we'd start our trip off right by taking a tour of the Snake Farm. Right off the bat we were excited to find out that there were two new baby lemurs on display. They even let you pet the lemurs and Julia and Alyssa got a special treat of having one climb on their shoulders and head. The average person may not know too much about lemurs, but for Alyssa this was kind of like the holy grail. Alyssa enjoys all animals but is especially partial to lemurs (due to the children's show Zoobamafoo where they became her favorite animal). Alyssa "the lemur girl" at the Snake Farm in New Braunsfels with a baby lemur pirched atop her head.

The same lemur just seconds before it bit Julia.
Alyssa really knows the different animals and told us the names of two that neithe Lisa or myself even knew their names. The first was a capuchin (a type of small monkey) the second was a capybara (the world's largest rodent). Sometimes I'm concerned that maybe she watches too much TV, but apparently some of the educational TV is sinking in.