THE ZOO!

There are two FREE zoo's here in merida so one day after school we got a group together and decided we would go explore the one downtown. It was fun! when we first got there we realized that they were having a special concert/event in the pavillion and walked over to check it out. There was a live band and lots of people dancing! Connor (the kid that used to be in my ward, and NO mom, i know what you are thinking... I am not interested in him, plus he has a thing for latin girls!) asked if anyone would go do the cha cha with him. I volunteered (thank you David and social dance 180) and we ran into the crowd and started dancing. One of the girls recorded us dancing (just at the moment when i messed up! Ha my luck! :) It was very fun. we danced for a few minutes in the crowd! I think most of the people were looking at us like we were crazy gringos. Probably because we were dancing ballroom style cha cha which tends to be more elaborate and fancy than normal cha cha!



After dancing we all headed off to find the zoo, just out side there was a fun little park for the kids to play on with this huge airplane slide that we played on for a little while and some teeter tooters. Then we headed into the actual zoo part with the animals only to have the worker explain that they were closing in 15 minutes. So we ran through the park and saw as many animals as we could. My favorite was the animal the giraffe! I couldn't get a good pic there were too many fences. There was also some ostriches, I have never seen one that close up he was sitting right next to the fence, we could have reached through and touched him except we were worried he would bite off our fingers. Well I learned two things about ostirches, 1. they blink from the side, their eyelids don't go up and down like humans, they come from the side. 2. They can make their eyes go completely white, the black part disappeared. It was one of the creepiest things i have ever seen. It looked possessed! (it reminded me of the crazy creepy black bird on babes in toyland, the one with keanu reeves! classic! haha) Super creepy, i included a pic but you can't see it super well! oh well! We had fun running through and taking fast random pictures.I am just going to throw a few on here! The zebra one is especially for BROCK! Nicole will you please show him!! Funny story real quick! so my roomamte ruthann went to take a picture of the parrots and right after the flash the bird squawked "otra vez!!" (again!)! It was hilarious! but he would not do a repeat performance so we could get it on video :(