Armand Bayou Nature Preserve

To celebrate school being out, I took the day off to spend with Raymond. His choice was to go to the Armand Bayou Nature Preserve, which is just a few miles from our house. After finishing our errands, which included check-up at the orthodontist for Raymond, and a physical for me at the doctor's, we ate lunch at the Charleston Tea Room in Friendswood. We then headed to Armand Bayou. It was HOT, but fun to walk the boardwalk, and look at the animals. We saw a number of golden orb spiders, several alligator snapping turtles, at least one red-eared slider and an armadillo. Raymond knows a lot about animals, so he kept busy telling me about each thing we saw. There is also a farm house, where they do demonstrations of old farm equipment on Saturdays, but we were able to walk through and look at things. In the reptile house, were aquariums with fish, toads, and of course snakes. I walked past those without looking! The last thing we did was look for the bison. The lady at the entrance told us we may not be able to see them, as they generally hide in the trees when it is this hot, but we were lucky enough to find them walking out in the open.

In all, it was a fun place to visit, and Raymond had a really good time. It was fairly cheap ($4 total for the two of us), so I'm sure we will go back again soon. Next time I will remember to take the camera.