Day 4:
Today is Sunday and we want to wish all of our friends and family a very Happy Easter!
Another great day started with a wonderful breakfast! We got there earlier than yesterday but still did not make it in time to get a good select ion of bacon. There were two pieces left and three of us. Thank goodness they made more because the bacon was great! We had a new drink for breakfast that they haven't served yet. The orange juice was gone so we got a fruit punch combo.....orange, strawberry, pineapple, and papaya.....it was wonderful!!! I hope they have it tomorrow too.
Our young lady who works night shift and speaks very good English was still there because no one showed up for the morning shift. I guess we were lucky we even got breakfast since no one showed up. She was doing everything but washing the dishes!
After breakfast, Jacob went down to the pool to swim and we watched him from the patio. It was a wondefully lazy way to start our day. Bob and I finally got up to go back to the room but we went out front first to see if the Zoo was open...it was so we went back to our room and started to get ready. We then walked down the road just a little ways to the zoo, which you can see from the hotel parking lot, and were pleasantly surprised when the young man selling tickets to the zoo spoke English....yay!!!
We took a long leisurely tour through the zoo taking pictures and video as we went. I am posting the pictures once I am done with this note.
There were birds, alligators, deer, turtles, cougars, llamas, wild pig type things, monkeys, and much more. The funniest thing we saw was a spider monkey. We had done quite a bit of walking and this monkey was just moving from limb to limb so we stopped to watch him. After a minute or two I decided to take a picture of him because he was really visible and the pictures would show him off really well. I take a few pictures as Bob sat on the bench and as I'm finishing up I notice that the monkey is getting really agitated. I put my camera down thinking that will help the situation but it doesn't. By this time there is crowd gathered and they apparently are blocking the monkeys view of us so he is going nuts climbing as high as he can, contemplating jumping for the tree outside the range of his pen, and acting very frustrated and aggressive actually. We realize that it is Bob who is the center of this monkeys attention and he is really giving Bob the evil eye. Jacob comes over to watch and notices that the monkey is rubbing his arm which apparently is a sign of aggression, like flexing your muscles. That is when we realize that Bob was doing that earlier as we sat there watching the monkey. He apparently had an itch on his bicep and the monkey thought he was challenging him. It was the funniest thing we ever saw. Thank goodness the monkey couldn't get out of his area because I think he would have come over and tried to kick Bob's butt!!
The zoo was really neat and the pathway was covered nicely with trees which provided a lot of shade. We got some wonderful pictures so you should check them out!
After the zoo we walked a little further down the road to Restaurante Mauriel where we enjoyed a plain hamburgesa (which is actually not plain....it was a hamburger, a piece of cheese, a piece of ham, and a delicious secret sauce all on a hamburger bun) and papas fritas (french fries with more of the secret sauce for dipping). Can you image what a fully loaded burger would have on it? It was really good and we enjoyed sitting there listening to the flow of Spanish all around us as the tv played a local soccer game. Very nice!
Then we walked back to the hotel where Bob crashed since his knee was bothering him and Jake and I went up to the pool for a little while. We then came back and took showers, turned on the tv and the internet.
We are in for the night and getting ready for bed soon. We think we will head into town tomorrow to check out some schools because we want to go to the beach on Tuesday.
More tomorrow...enjoy the pictures!
The spider monkey giving Bob the stink eye.... it was soooooo funny!
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