Sunday, February 17, 2008

Zoofari and Taxco

On the 11th we went to the coolest place. We went to the Zoofari in a town a little south of

Cuernavaca. We got to drive our car through the park with animals roaming around our car. We could roll down our windows and feed the animals through our window. We fed a giraffe, deer, ostriches, llamas, zebras, emus, and some animals we had never seen before. It was amazing. I was feeding an ostrich through the window and the ostrich started eating a ton of the food, so I pulled the food away from the ostrich. Well, the ostrich didn't like that so it put it's head through my window into the car. I started to roll the window up and when the window was up, the ostrich started pecking of the window. In some parts of the zoofari, we could get out of our carand walk around among the animals. Some of the animals were caged up where they couldn't get to you, like the monkeys, chimpanzees, hippos, camels, and elephants, but they had all kinds of birds walking around, deer like animals, and some big gerbil looking thing wandering around with us. We could also get out where they had ostriches, llamas, emus, and zebras wandering around. Jake fed a camel and the camel tried to take the bowl of food right out of his hand. We got to feed an elephant and when Jake fed the elephant, it took the bowl from him. They also had a zoo part where they had all kinds of animals. There was also a part where we could drive your car through a tiger's cage. We had to have our windows rolled up, but right by our car, there was a white tiger and an orange tiger roaming about. It was so awesome. We went on a Monday, but if you go on a Saturday or Sunday you can ride a camel and get your picture taken holding a jaguar. We could never do that in that in the U.S.A. I put lots of videos of here because I couldn't pick which ones to leave off. If you go to Mexico, this is a great place to go, but go on a weekend.

After our amazing experience at the zoofari, we went to Taxco where the Spaniards had the first silver mine. It is the city of silver. It was crazy busy! The city was built on the side of a hill. The streets were narrow and there were people everywhere wanting to buy silver. I got my little chunk of silver there in the form of earrings. The salesman at the silver shop we went to wanted to sell us a set of silver silverware for the mere price of $3500. That's dollars not pesos like I thought at first. It was a steal from the original price of $7500.

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