jonah’s family party

And after the asado, when it got dark, we had another party. I purchased fireworks at a store in our neighborhood called POW!

We told the owners at POW! that we did not have a lot of room and needed very safe fireworks! It was going along well, right until we lit the ladybug! It started whistling, and then spinning and then all of a sudden it took off, shooting over our fence and probably the neighbors as well. It was terrifying, but also, for some reason ridiculously hysterical. We laughed until we couldn’t laugh anymore…and then we decided to put away the other ladybugs, for another day and a safer place.

I still wanted to see if we could launch a globe. Our first attempt was a failure,

but not the second!

Wishing on a successful globe means that your dream will come true,

for sure!

And, last of all, sparklers, for the brave souls that were still out on the patio.

the children’s museum

After breakfast and a quick stop off at the verduraria…

we went downtown to the Children’s Museum at the Abasto Mall.

 

We had a little laugh that the price of admission for the children, was more than double the price of admission for adults.

 

We ALL had so much fun at the museum. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

temaiken bioparque

Temaiken a gorgeous zoo in Belen de Escobar. Since the schools here in Buenos Aires have not let out for Spring Break yet, we found that we had the zoo almost completely to ourselves. I wasn’t sure what the difference between a biopark and zoo was, but I did find out that bioparks are more sensitive to the needs of the animals, keep them in a habitat congruent to their species and this one also recues endangered animals. Many of the animals are not caged at all, but the park has been developed so that you can safely observe the animals, sometimes at extremely close range.

The park is absolutely gorgeous, but in a very natural way.

Here we have Carter conquering his fear of the bird with the long and curved bill, making the biggest noises, just daring him to try and get past on the stairs. He and Tricia were the only ones who dared attempt the feat.

We learned lots of fun and interesting facts about birds. In the exhibit of the penguin, we were able to feel the temperature necessary to keep the birdie inside the egg alive. It was quite warm!

There is a lovely bamboo forest where we saw all kinds of wildlife and probably missed all kinds of wildlife as well. My personal favorites were the cobalt blue vultures.

 

 

 

Izzy climbed up on this rock to get a great view of the Wallabys that were hopping nearby.

 

 

 

We loved watching the hippos above and below the water. Those animals are huge! One of them came right up to us at the window.

There were several huge aviaries at the park. This one housed the bats. It was HOT and STINKY in there and kind of scary too!