The Zoo......

Don't you love surprises? How many of you hate being told about something really important the day before it's going to happen? I do! That's what happened to me. As I go to bed, my mother mentions, "Oh, yeah. At 7:30 tomorrow morning, all the 30 kids from the children's home plus the American missionary teams are going to the zoo, and I told them you're going." WHAT?!?! No escaping now. Not that I don't want to go. Don't get me wrong. I'm almost 13 and I relish at the opportunity to act like I'm 5 and squeal at every little caterpillar on the sidewalk with my friends. So I went.

My choices: (You hate this part, don't you?)
1.  All 30 kids, most of them younger than 12, and sweaty 18-25-year-old Americans--no offense--crammed in a bus, most of them puking OR
2.  in a smooth SUV with a cute baby and fun people.

Which would you choose? If you think I went in the bus, you get and X. I chose the car. Of course :)
NO OFFENSE MEANT FOR ANYONE!  OK!

So when we get there, we go into a museum. What's a zoo without a museum and a creepy guide that likes to talk about mummies and shushes you when you ask a question? Well, we got a zoo complete with the creepy guide. YAY!!(that was sarcastic;P) We stood outside of the museum a good 20 minutes to a half hour. The whole time the guide was explaining about what your camera flash can do to the animal hair, and how they give it chemical reactions,and how one man walked in and took a picture with flash and they "practically watched" the hair fall off. You get the point.  So when we finally walked in there's a little room to your right and in it, a little bridge with animals on each side. When were all on the bridge, the guide starts talking about how once when he was on the bridge, he fell off. Interesting, but it had absolutely nothing to do with the animals?

We then stepped into a different room and looked at dead fish. Then the butterfly and bug room. And SPIDERS! There the guide talked about how this one little bug killed a big amount of people and stuff. Great. After that room, we went into the room with all the deformed animals in vinegar bottles. The last room was  the weirdest, the room with all the Indian stuff. The guide talked all about myths and superstitions and stuff like that. "If you put this little round wooden plug in your ear, it will keep the spirits out."

Now the zoo! You've probably been dying to read this ever since you looked at the title. Here it is. There was one small lion, an elephant, a hippo, and a HUGE snake everyone got to hold (later on).  There were ducks and pigs, monkeys and snakes, ostriches and big cats.  Maybe the zoo in Paraguay isn't quite as advanced as the U.S. but it was still fun.  Lots of fun, big, scary, weird, cool, awkward animals.

So the snake I mentioned above.... We were all walking along and having fun when a man comes up holding a boa. I squeal and point, and we all go over there to get a better look. The guys asks if I want to hold  the snake. SURE! I hold it and get my picture taken. Then the guy asks the kids if they want to drape the snake around there neck.  Whoa! The kids and Americans go up there and get there pictures taken, too.  Later in the day, one of the kids tries to put the skin of the snake on everyone. Gross.

Lunch time! Some of the adults went for pizza while the kids stayed and played. With adults, of course. While we were talking, one of my friends suddenly got excited and pointed at a tree. Yeah, a tree. Never seen one before? But wait! As you look closer, you can see a monkey on one of the tree limbs. Asleep. Awesome! A monkey on the loose! Well a lot of random stuff like that happened and I had a LOT of fun. I want to thank the people who made it possible for us to go. Including my mom! :)  Hope you enjoyed this!