Houston Trip - Monday, September 19, 2016 - Dallas, TX

After a good breakfast at the hotel which included a Texas shaped waffle, we headed to the Dallas Zoo and were among the few to wander the zoo this morning.  It is a nice zoo.

We attended a Cheetah encounter that was really neat and brought us up close and personal with a cheetah and her best friend a black lab.

The Galapagos Island tortoises were active.

Here was a new animal to us.  ;)  Good thing we didn't bring the Mustang (this Mustang didn't fare too well with the Raptor).

Look closely, there's a very brave bird on the dinosaur's head!

The Giants of Savannah was a pretty impressive exhibit.

This one appears to be an escapee (as two zookeepers were trying to wrangle it in).

This may look a lot like an American Bald Eagle but is actually an African Fish Eagle.

Here are a couple of other animal pictures.

Then we had lunch at Pappadeaux with a couple of my husband's friends who had met in previous IRS trainings before heading to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza.  It was really neat to learn more about Kennedy and the circumstances surrounding his assassination but it was really crowded (despite it being a Monday in September and them limited the number of people they allow enter each half hour) making it not as enjoyable.  I couldn't take any pictures inside the Museum, but here are photos of the building where the sniper sat and the route the President took before he was assassinated.  They have marked the road with an X where he was fatally shot.

The grassy knoll...

6th Floor, Corner window just to the right of the arched window on the left side of the building

Today we drove 80.4 miles today for a total of 2 hours and 18 minutes in the car.  The morning at the zoo was in the mid to upper 90s.  By the time we were walking Dallas this afternoon around Dealey Plaza, the temperature reached 104*F.  The locals said it has been unusually hot and wet for this time of the year (usually everything's brown at the end of summer but it's all green!).