My family was looking for something a little more unusual to do with our two boys. We settled on taking them to an alligator farm. One of the closest ones we could find was the East Texas Gator Farm in Grand Saline.
From our house it was about 1.5 hour drive. We got to the Alligator farm around lunch time. The weather wasn't great, it was sprinkling. We still managed to have a good time. We counted 41 alligators between 4 ponds. They also had a bunch of tortoise, snakes, ring tail lemurs, a camel and much more. It turned out to be a pretty good trip.