My Favorite Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Photo Ops

I have been to A LOT of zoos. I absolutely love them! So I choose to go to them all the time. I think I went to 6 different zoos last summer. Crazy, right? Well, last weekend, we traveled to Fort Wayne, Indiana to spend the night at their zoo. It was so much fun! But that's a post for a different time. After we spent the night, we left to put all of our stuff in the car, then went back into the zoo and spent an extra 3 hours there. And while we were walking through the zoo, we found so many cool and fun photo ops! Let me tell you my favorites!

Here's a map to give you an idea of where these awesome stops are.

1. The Zoo Entrance
This is clearly the most photographed place in the whole zoo! I watched people sit on it, stand behind it, take large group photos, etc. We loved it!

2. The Tortoise
This turtle is almost the exact same size as one of the tortoises at the zoo! How awesome, right? Plus kids can ride this one.

3. The Peacock
This is just such a fun and inventive photo op! It is 2 pieces connected at the bottom that allows kids (and adults) to stand/kneel behind the body, in front of the feathers, to make it look as though the person in the photograph's head is on a peacock body.

4. Big Wave
This one is right by Stingray Bay. I just love this whole area of the zoo. It is themed amazingly! But we had so much fun with this one. I saw a family on the surfboard with one kid in front and dad in back with a small child on his shoulders. How cute!

5. Shark Head
This one is right next to the surfboard. Again, so fun! There's an opening in the back for kids (and adults) to get inside the shark head.

6. Penguins
Ok, so this clearly had to make the list for my family because penguins are easily our family's favorite animal! And I just love that there was space between two of the penguins for people to step in for a great photo.

7. Butterfly Wings
So these just look like pretty butterflies in a grassy area. However, when you stand in front of the butterfly, you look like a beautiful butterfly! (said in the voice of Heimlich from A Bug's Life, of course)

8. Orangutan
This is a beautiful statue of an orangutan. Who doesn't love taking cute pictures with statues? Plus, how adorable that the orangutan had his hand out and my son decided they needed to hold hands.

9. Komodo Dragon
If you don't look for this, you could easily miss it! So keep an eye out after you go past the Children's Treehouse.

10. The Safari Truck
It's a cute little truck that your kids can pretend to drive. Slightly less boring than the rest of my favorites, but still cool.

11. Sight-Seeing
So this isn't quite like the rest of the traditional photo-ops, but this was just too cute to pass up. They have a couple self-standing binoculars that are so cute to get a picture of your loved ones using. And if you can't use these for some reason, there's also a basket of handheld binoculars.

12. Eggs
How much fun is it for kids to pretend like they're coming out of a broken egg? Apparently tons of fun! Because my son had a blast climbing in and out of them.

Bonus Photo Op:
13. Dinosaur
The reason this is a bonus and not part of the regular list is because you have to pay extra to get to this. While on the train, you see this dinosaur off the side. It's pretty cool! You pass it twice so my recommendation is to look for it on your first pass and then get ready and take your picture on your way back.

I had so much fun writing this post, looking back at our weekend. It was so much fun.