We visited San Antonio Zoo for their holiday lights.

We arrived before dark, so there were still some animals awake:

A carousel:

We had some dinner:

Then wandered around some more:

Some holiday lights coming on as the sun set:

A band:

Artwork:

It was a fairly small zoo, not particularly impressive. Notable for opening the first cageless exhibits in the US. Though it looks like much of it hasn’t been updated recently.

Since it’s Christmas Day, I wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. 🎄

We went to SeaWorld in San Antonio to see the holiday lights. One doesn’t really think of the sea in connection with landlocked San Antonio, but there ya go.

We first checked out the sea lions:

Since we happened to be nearby when they were about to start a Sea lion show, we thought we’d check it out:

We sensibly sat outside the splash zone, aka deliberately spraying water jets zone:

So cute:

Snowmen:

A very Texan boot tree:

Plastic bottle tree:

Turtle:

Fish:

Ducks and flamingos:

Jenn:

Dinner:

Swag:

Lights:

Again we happened to be nearby when they were about to start a nativity show, as told by animal puppets, with some live animals, so we attended that too (way too loud):

Lights reflecting in the water:

A musical performance:

Lights:

A Sesame Street Christmas parade:

Then we headed to the Orca Encounter, for a little more animal exploitation… but they were keen to point out how many animals they’d rescued and otherwise helped:

Some videos of the orca:

More lights:

It was a fun evening.