One day when the older girls were gone for some YW's thing, I took the boys to the Santacruz Zoo inSan Antonio Del Tequendama. I really thought the boys would like it, and it was hard setting a time when everyone would be able to go, and also the water was going to be shut off to our house that day, so I thought it would be good to not have the boys at home. Little did I know that soon we would be having the water shut off monthly and for a while weekly because Bogotá was experiencing a huge drought and the water levels in their main reservoir that fed the city water was practically dry. Anyway, at the time, I didn't know that and was far more worried about the water, when after a time it was just life as normal, filling buckets with water and living in a stinky house.
I realize I have way too many photos of jaguars on here, but they are so gorgeous!!! Beautiful, beautiful animals.
The enclosures at the zoo left something to be desired--they were frequently too small. On the whole though, the zoo was clean and all the animals looked healthy, so while I sympathize with some extranejeros bad reviews online, I didn't think it was terribly bad.
This is a famous waterfall we drove by on the way there. So beautiful.
Weird plants.
I was trying to take a photo of the boys with the jaguar in the background.
But then it came up behind them and ruined my photo. 😉
The boys were thrilled!
Lovely orchids.
Not sure what type of raptor this was.
A javelina.
This is a Chavaría.
And a lora cacique. That plumage--no wonder they call it the chief parrot.
The flamingos were so hilarious. They move in unison
These birds looked awesome, the Crested Caracaras.
And this bird looked freaky, and not real. It's fake. 😂 It's a Rey de los Gallinazos or in English, the King Vulture.
A Saki monkey. I don't like monkeys. They're freaky.
And a Tití Panameno monkey.
The parrots were stunning! One of them talked but just a little bit.
DEMON bird!!!
This guy is a Coatí or a Guache or a Cusumbo. I'm guessing depending on where you're from. I thought it was hilarious that the zoo had all three names listed.
A caiman just for Sebastian.
Spider monkeys.
And a devil monkey. It looks evil.
A funky monkey.
And an anteater.
EWWWW! And a devil snake.
I think this was a python of some sort.
And this was an anaconda.
Snakes are freaky. More than monkeys. Definitely THE most freaky of animals.
This is a macabriel.
Weird pimply plant.
And the king of ugly birds: The Andean Condor.
We watched it being fed. That was really cool.
Yep, I still prefer spiders and scorpions over snakes.
These guys are fun though.
The butterfly house only had three species, but man was one a showstopper.
Look how pretty when opened!
A Tapir!
Catching ants, because apparently that's my lot in life is to watch ants and hear about ants and help gather ants. Sigh.
Another fake.
That has to be the prettiest peacock I ever did see.
Crazy that hippos are an invasive species in Colombia because of Pablo Escobar bringing in 4. It seems like something that could be hunted down easily.
I'm a mom and a nurse, hopefully decent at both but that's debatable. I love history and family history and blogging is my way of keeping my family's history. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging/sewing/reading/sewing instead.
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"Science advances, it's like a ladder--one step leads to another. But art isn't like that. Art is about being human. Children make art instinctively. Archaeologists know that when they find evidence of art, they're found evidence of human beings. It expresses all that is best in us--our desires, our hopes, our truth. And so, art changes, but it doesn't get better."
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