Vacation Highlights - Part 2

Huchabara
We woke up after our first night on vacation and went down and had a cooked to order breakfast. We would later be scolded by our 4 year old for not taking them "out" to eat breakfast.

As we dressed and packed up for the days activities the girls parked themselves in front of the TV in the front room of the two room suite. They were watching Scooby-Doo and the villain of the day was a chupacabra.

Kyla ran through once or twice to tell us about the chupacabra. Then Laney came racing through the room and shouted, "Oh no a huchabara is gonna git us!"


I Think the Peacock Made me Pee my Pants!
When we arrived at the zoo we were in such a rush to get out of the car, the baby strapped into her little wearable carrier (I like to feel like Kangaroo sometimes.), and keep everyone from getting run over in the parking lot, that we forgot the camera.

We realized this when we got to the monkey cages, because you've got to take photos of monkeys. Paula decided she'd run back to the car and get it. The girls and I strolled along looking at the ducks and flamingos and then visited the alligator.

Just prior to this we had noticed a peacock roaming around the grounds, then watched him find a nice cool spot by an air conditioning unit in the shade. As we walked back from the alligator area we saw two other birds, looked like some sort of chicken, run towards the peacock's resting place. A turf war ensued but the peacock realized it was outnumbered and ran off, like an angry little kid.

We walked back towards the main gate to see if we could spot Paula. She wasn't anywhere to be seen so we turned around. Just then I noticed the beady little eyes of the peacock staring at me out of a bush just a few feet from us. I didn't want it to get scared and run out, terrifying the girls so I herded them to the bear enclosure.

The bear seemed more content to stare at us from his water hole, than actually coming over to the bars for a cracker. He looked like he was relaxing in a hot tub with the lower half of his body submerged in the water, his front legs resting on either side along the concrete, and staring back over his shoulder at us.

We walked to a shady area beneath the tree to wait. I pointed the monkeys playing in their area, out to the girls. Just then I heard a scream behind me. I turned to see my wife hopping wildly away from the bush and a terrified peacock racing the other direction.

I broke down in laughter. Her face glowed red from the noon heat, embarrassment and the wrath of the peacock. She had to laugh to and said she must have gone in 14 different directions. I told her it probably wasn't any more than 9.