I can honestly say I have been to the a handful of times in my 34yrs of life and would to say this time my experience was pretty cool. We went on Monday,May 30th 2016 and already loved that it wasn't that busy.
Coming through the gate we had a lovely man direct us to a couple of girls with lizards in their hands to touch....my 2yr old loved it. This reminded me of Ripley's were you can touch the sting rays.
We made our way over to baby panda first because the zoo has a lot ground to cover and knew we won't make it to every exhibit. It was nice to see the pandas were up and about kind of. Last year on this very day the pandas were just sleeping lol I guess because it was there first year there and we're jet lagged.
My son really enjoyed the kid zone and I really enjoyed the tree house.
It was really cool that they had the camels out getting groomed and we saw the Alpacas being walked....very interactive experience this time around then last year.