Okay, so I am a teacher and I am forced to come t...

Okay, so I am a teacher and I am forced to come to the zoo on weekdays. Unfortunately, the Houston Zoo is one place where it is actually LESS crowded on Saturdays and Sundays! During the week every school, church, daycare, boyscout, girlscout, camp, and youth group in Texas is here!! I feel sorry for the animals at the petting zoo. There are like 6 kids to each animal! There isn't any room to breath. They give the kids a mini hairbrush to comb the animals hair (at the end of the day, I'm surprised the animals aren't bald!). The line to use the restroom is about 3 miles long. NO JOKE! There will be no place to sit. PLEASE go to the zoo on Saturday in the late afternoon, the zoo will be peaceful and you can actually enjoy the beauty of the animals and the zoo as a whole. Overall, the Houston Zoo isn't the best in the U.S. but it isn't the worst either. It is just average, but it is just enough to where your children can learn about the majority of animals.