Of course, we checked out how much things would cost us ahead of time online, and we almost choked on the price of $43 for our family. However, after browsing around a bit, we decided to become Houston Zoo members for $80 for the family. This includes 1 year of unlimited usage, and we figured that if we went just two times, we'd recoup our money.
The day was pretty nice for early June, and we discovered the zoo had a special dinosaur exhibit. It was $2 per person, but the kids loved it and went through it twice!
Hermann park also had a train ride, and of course, we took that too. After the ride around the park, we decided we'd make it a habit of heading downtown to the park as well as the zoo. There were playscapes galore as well as a water park, plenty of shade, picnic tables, and free parking. Needless to say, we will get our money's worth out of that zoo membership.
