Erin said she wanted to go somewhere for our weekly outing so I recommended the zoo. One of the ladies I volunteered with said it was good place to go and it only cost $15. I thought it was a good deal.
As far as the array of animals, they had mostly creatures from South America. We saw crocodiles, penguins, water buffalo, hippos, and the usual lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!), but no elephants. And a HUGE playground. This place would be paradise for little kids.
Apparently they were going to start constructing the zoo when they discovered a whole bunch of ancient ruins from previous Inca civilizations. So as your walking around the park, you see these brown hills at certain spots that you can peruse through. It was like an outdoor museum.
I found out during this outing that Erin is a closet archeologist. She was really fascinated by it all.
Poor bear had a bunch of visitors with him. Those vultures were all over the place. The filled up the turtle exhibit to where we didn't even know there were turtles there.
Erin has in her hand "Flat Stanley." It's a childrens book about a boy who had something fall on him so he became flat. I guess a recent project they are doing for her nephew is to take pictures of Flat Stanley at various spots. So I was helping her that day put Stanley in certain spots for photo ops.
We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was a warm day, but cloudy so it wasn't miserably hot.
Something that creeped Erin out. We asked a guy to take a picture of us with my camera, which he did. But then he took a picture of us with his own camera. Yes, we did not know this guy. Erin thought that was strange, but I've already had it happen to me once. At the hospital I work at people just want to talk to me simply because I'm a foreigner. Didn't realize we were such fascinating people.
It was a fun day, but as any outing is, a little exhausting. I slept like a rock that night. Erin makes for a good playmate though.
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