Zoo Day

Juliana, Maya and Natalia are back from their l-o-n-g trip to her family in Brazil, so we caught up with them at the zoo on Monday.

Our zoo family pass expires this month, and we've decided that, for now, we're not going to renew it. With Cora in school, we're just not going often enough as a family to make the yearly price pencil out.

Monday looked like the coolest day of the week - it's July, therefore we're facing upper-90s pretty often. But Monday was cloudy in the morning, and the high only reached 85.

We had a very nice day together, and enjoyed catching up on our respective summer trips.

We spent much of our time in the zoo's new Rainforest exhibit, which featured lots of flora and fauna from Brazil.
Here, the half-Brazilian (and half-English) girls hang out in the replica of a Harpy eagle nest. These massive raptors can reach 22 pounds and 42 inches long.

 After lunch at the playground, and well over an hour of playtime, we got ice creams and saw a few more animals on our way out.

 We made sure to see the zoo's new lions, after over a year of an empty enclosure after the older lions died.

Hubert and Kalisa, both 15 years old, joined the zoo this spring, and what a pretty pair they are. We even got to see them cuddle.

We had to have Cora-the-zebra pose in front of the real zebras.
Thanks, Juliana, for all these beautiful photos! We had a very enjoyable day.