I’ve always loved zoos. So why not go to the Belize Zoo. Voted best zoo in the Americas. We stayed in the Tropical Education Center which was right across the highway in one of the pond houses, where our nearest neighbors were three crocidiles!
The zoo has a night tour which my parents and I went on. We feed and touched “Tambo” the Central American Tapir who was kind of soft and had a short elephant-like trunk. They had a jaguar named “Junior Buddy” who I got to touch. They had owls and Howler Monkeys, Ocelots, Pumas, and Margays.
Sounds fantastic! I love zoos too, and it must be very cool to visit one that specializes in local fauna. Glad to hear you’re keeping up with math. Did you call the jaguar, Junior Budward? Keep the blogs coming.
Actually i did call it Junior Budward!
OK, I’ve not commented because Ed & I were in India, and then (although I deny it to most people) I got some weird thing that Aaron tells me “must” be a rash in reaction to a bug bite. Gross stuff I’ll tell you about in private. (Got your attention?) I’ve been sick since I got home last week but now things are better.
And yeah, I read all of this! My question is: why don’t you write more? Really. I just start to get interested when I’m reading about tiny twisting streets or shops that are so crowded on the Day of the Dead that you have to invent a new word…then what? An image builds in my head like some animated movie and then…poof. Or period, Joes’s done. Yeah, I know not everyone likes to write as much as I do (TMI, Mom, TMI, is the response from You Know Who), but boyo you are in such an amazing place: let us know MORE!
😉 Really, hope you are having an OK time. I’d be comatose if I’d had to be alone with my parents for months on end in a foreign place. Not that there was a chance of that in my family….
Sorry to hear that you’re not feeling well:/ and I will start posting more stuff and go into greater detail next time. Thanks for the response!
Fully recovered, off to see grandkids in LA (turkey day this week), and love the cave description…see above.
I’ve always wanted to see an ocelot up close. When I was around 10 or so, I spent hours and hours drawing pictures from a book of mammals that I owned (I still have it, actually), and the ocelot was one of my favorites.
DO you think it was the best zoo in the Americas? That sounds like such a cool experience.
The zoo sounds great. Should I put it on my list of places to see?
Joe, I would love to see some pictures of you touching the various animals. Bopum and I went to the UM football game yesterday, and we saw 113,000 animals of the two-legged variety. They were very exotic, though, all decked out in yellow and blue plumage or fur or animal skin. Love, Nannie
How cool to be able to touch a Tampir and a Jaquar! I, too, am a lover of
animals. I think I like the cats best of all….even the house cats. So happy to
hear you are enjoying your unique traveling expedition AND still keeping up
with your math.
Much love,
Joan
Tapirs are soft?!?! Who’d have thought it?
Cool!. Junior Budward!
Sounds really cool! We might go there in February. Tell us what would you recommend are the top three things to see!
Joe, The zoo tour sounds GREAT! It must be amazing to see these exotic critters and even more to touch them!
I REALLY enjoy your Sidecar blog and look for more every day. Keep up the good work and observe all these new experiences. Love, Bopum
Yikes, all those skeletons! My imagination is too vivid to think
about how they got there.
I hope you are writing the most impressive things to you in your
journal.
Mucho love, Joan