Such a fantastic zoo....we came from Philadelphia,...

Such a fantastic zoo....we came from Philadelphia, PA to for our reveal with our babys theme(The Elephant)...We went October 20th 2019....It was a rainy day and when we arrived at zoo they told us we can pay admission to walk to zoo in rain buy no elephant rides that day ...I was bummed but we still walked the zoo...all the animals were so awesome and we fed the goats and giraffes...such an amazing experience to feed the giraffes...we saw a worker and asked if they could just bring out the elephant at least so we can take pics to do our reveal. We explained we drove far and was pregnant. 20 min later Mark the trainer and handler of the beautiful elephant brought the elephant to us and told us some fantastic stories of the elephant and his past work with elephants. We asked if we could get on top for the reveal but since it was raining the elephant was very dirty so he instead opened the gates and let us come and get close to the elephant and feel her and takes pics for our reveal...Mark has so much knowledge with elephants that's its jaw dropping the stories he can tell...we were so happy ...we were the only ones at the zoo that day...it was neat like it was closed just for us ,lol....overall, zoo is fantastic and the animals are amazing and personal with you...only animal that I wanted to see close up that stayed in barn was camels...cant wait to return on a sunny day to ride elephant.