Day 8: St. Louis Zoo

April 22, 2014

Hello again from Babler State Park.  We extended our stay for another night first thing this morning.  For those of you who are not very familiar with RVers one of the favorite sayings is that “Our plans are written in jello.”  Pretty often RVers “shake up the jello” and change their plans.  That's what we did this morning after reviewing the weather forecasts for areas west and north of here.  Our next major stop is planned to be Rapid City, SD where we have arranged to do some volunteer work at a Methodist church camp.  However, after reviewing weather forecasts last night and again the morning we decided we needed to delay our arrival there by a few days.  We don't like driving the rig in strong winds and the predictions indicated 30-45mph wind gusts along our route.  So, we spent most of the day at the St. Louis Zoo.  

It was great!  We are so glad we got to really spend some time there rather than rushing through everything.  One of the best things about the Zoo is that it is free! Parking is $15.00, but as we were driving up we saw cars parked beside the road.

So, we were able to find a free spot less than a mile away and walked back to the entrance. What a deal!

The zoo has 18,000 animals, with some animals we had never seen or heard of before, like a bush dog.  Randy, we tried to get you a picture of the Red Panda, but it was up in a cave sleeping.  

It was a beautiful spring day and St. Louis is very pretty right now.  The tulips at the St Louis Art Museum are in full bloom and just gorgeous.  Hope you enjoy today's pictures.