Birthday at the Zoo
Monday was my friend Mary’s birthday. Mary is a relief worker for the house moms here at Bethesda. I asked Mary what she wanted to do and she said she wanted to go to the zoo. So…we went to the zoo on Wednesda, her day off! I took Mary, her sister Sarah, and Mary’s son Gift, to the Pretoria Zoological Gardens for the day. It was quite fun to watch Mary and the kids enjoy the animals and people at the zoo. We saw many animals that would be typical in a zoo in the U.S. There were however a few things that I found a bit strange about the zoo… along with the typical lions and tigers and bears at the zoo…this zoo also had cows, goats, sheep, and pigs 8) . Hope you enjoy some photos to recount the day at the zoo. After the day at the zoo, I took Mary to have some pizza and birthday cake with the Zak family.
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- Mama monkey and her babies…there are actually two but
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- Sarah & Gift check out the animals
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- Zoo lions just aren’t the same as game drive lions
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- Sarah and Gift LOVED watching the lions
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- Sarah checking out the hyena
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- Mary & Gift look like they are posing for a picture, but they are really afraid of crossing the suspension bridge.
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- Don’t know what kind of birds these are, but I actually thought they were cool.
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- The whole crew posing for their shot.
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- This guy came after me in the aviary. It doesn’t sound like a big deal until you realise how much I HATE birds!
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- The sleeping rhino
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- Yep…that’s a cow on the same sign as an elephant and a chimp!
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- Sarah & Gift on the cable car
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- Mary and I in the cable car.
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- Gift is terrified of riding the cable car!
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- The bear from the cable car.
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- The farm animals at the zoo sign
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- Checking out the view of the city from the mountain
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- Doesn’t Sarah look like a princess awaiting her knight in shining armour?
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- Mary and Gift heading back to the cable car
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- We’re all in the cable car headed down the mountian
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- Blow out the candles, Birthday Girl!
Tonya Small 