I will point out first of all that today we took over 1500 photos! Poor Aid is now sitting there trying to pick out a few for the photo diary!
Today we decided to be proper tourists and have a nice relaxing day wandering around Calgray Zoo. It was absolutely manic in the car park; it was only small and today is a public holiday so there were people everywhere. The zoo itself wasn’t too bad luckily but it was pretty hectic in some places.
They have some excellent animals here, some I didn’t even know existed. It was pretty cool seeing everything so close up. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a zoo, and it was great fun!
My highlight: MOOSE! Of course. A very cute moose that wandered up towards us when we arrived and had a little swim around, it was very cool. So that’s 1 in the wild and two at the zoo in total so far. 🙂 Excellent result!
Other good points: Bears, flamingos (!! these were really cool!), elephants and baby elephant (so cute!), and others I don’t remember already.
The range was good though, with different sections for different animals from different countries, a very interesting selection of animals that you wouldn’t normally see.
It was about 4pm by the time we had looked around (almost) everything, we headed to the Calgary tower for the amazing views from 550ft up over the entire of calgary. The town, the highrises, the mountains, the c-train going across the city, it was amazing. And it has a very cool section that lets you see right down, which is fun, including a picture taken of me that looks like I’m hovering in mid air 😀 it was quiet odd to not be rotating though, after being in the BT tower earlier this year!
We wandered around the pedestranised area of downtown, but unfortunately because of the holiday mostly everything was closed by the time we got there, but it was still interesting.
Off towards the hotel we looked for places for tea; our hotel is just off Macleod Trail and the entire side of the road is littered with millions and millions of resturants; we picked “Tony Roma’s” (famous for ribs, apparently, although none of us had any! They looked fantastic though). Some nice potato skins, and yet another burger later (I swear I’m going to pick something else tomorrow. Seriously. Maybe some liposuction.) it was a tasty meal, not a bad choice out of all of the 1000 available 😉
Back to the hotel for some leg relaxation; my legs felt like they were going to fall off by this afternoon, having not completly recovered from yesterday! 😀
Thats wierd- you always said zoos were smelly and disgusting when you were a kid!