Day 8

So, Barrry wanted to start of with a pretty picture...so here is the castle!!!! (and my even more beautiful wife!) What you are really about to see our adventures at Zoo Praha!!! There was a sign there that said Prague's Zoo was #7 in the world according to Forbes Magazine, pretty impressive, so we had high hopes. I think you will be pleased as well. By the way, we miss you all!!!! And another side note, as we are blogging Barry and I are trying basically everything we bought at the grocery store hehe. Currently, the pudding, it is okay. We did buy a huge 8 pack of .5L Kozel, which we discovered at the zoo was probably our favorite beer so far....ok time to get started!!!

This is backwards a little bit because here we were waiting for our tram to go home at the end of our big day at the zoo! Now for some more chronological photos... B - I just thought we needed to start this blog with a bang. I could have kicked her off with a picture of a porcupine, like below, but it just wasn't quite as eye catching. I hope me (Barry) interrupting doesn't confuse anyone during the course of the blog. Alli wrote first and now I just wanted to add a few little quips.

Isn't he sweet??? This is one of the first animals we saw, a little porky pine, they were surprisingly cute, cuddly, and active!! I bet you didn't know they were tree huggers! Porcupines are the animal kingdoms equivalent of hippies. I was going to take a pic of the other Pines but they were using illegal drugs and playing citars. Somethings are just not proper to put in a blog.

A Komodo Dragon!!! I don't know about you all, but we had never seen one of these guys, pretty cool, and kind of creepy (this is Alli of course). After we saw him we had to walk through these hanging things into the "twilight zone." I got kind of freaked out, and for good reason, it was so dark and it was all bats, ick!!! Then, worst of all (for me, maybe best for Barry)....one of the last exhibits in the twilight zone was glassLESS!!! YES!!! AHHHH!!! It was awful, I stood bravely for about 10 seconds before I basically got attacked, yes one flew right out at me!!!! It was so scary!!! Needless to say I have never run faster from Barry in my life, he soon caught up with me out of the twilight zone, phew!!!

This cute little polar bear, well big polar bear, was NOT a happy camper!!! He was the only one in his or her? exhibit and he was pacing back and forth furiously! He kept going up to one of the little feeding places and banging with his paws against the walls, we think he was hungry. We watched for a while, and then as we left we still could hear the outraged polar bear banging against that wall...I hope they fed the poor guy eventually!!!

This is a cute cute little river otter!!! Any of you have seen otters, know how much fun they are too watch-so playful!!! And of course this little guy reminded us of some family back home...
Twinkies!!!!

This is some kind of squirrel, he was very photogenic and let Barry take a lot of up close and personal snaps! He loves nuts!!!!!!!

Here I am enjoying some of our newly found beer, Kozel. It is very yummy. Cool you can drink at the zoo, huh??? Kozel is popular with the locals according to Barry ( I don't know where he gets all of his information)...and is manufactured outside of Prague somewhere. Yum-o!

Time to chill!!! This guy had one too many Kozels, or maybe just the right amount???

Aww...the giraffe exhibit was beautiful!!! Here is one of the little guys, adorable! We could look at these guys from above and enjoy a pretty view, or we could go down on their level and watch them too. There were also zebras in this exhibit and some kind of antelope!

Zoo Praha puts their cats in small cages inside like normally the snakes and stuff are...so you go inside and walk through and between you and the glass is a big cat! The lion as you can see snubbed us! But, was enjoying a yummy piece of raw meat-sick! Just wanted to put the lion in because I promised lions, tiers, and no bears the other day. Didn't want you to think I was a liar.

Roar!!! This gorgeous cat was pacing and posing, so pretty.

Alright, all you monkey lovers (AKA LOU!) This might have been the cutest baby gorilla ever. Here he is riding on his mama's back, just precious! A woman was talking at this exhibit all about these fun gorillas, unfortunately we didn't learn a darn thing except that Czech is especially hard to pick up. We can't even remember how to say see you later at the end of every post haha!

Snack/Lunch time!!! We got some yummy sausage, with mustard (which is quite delicious here I must say), bread, and horse radish!!! It was great and hit the spot!

These hippos were pretty awesome, we got to see them at feeding time (we hit a lot of feeding times and we didn't even try to, it was great!). He looks kind of harmless here, but just wait...

Ahh! There is the Hungry Hungry Hippo we all know!!! One guy was on the land, and the other two were side by side, and would open their huge mouths and wait for the guy to toss a small bite of apple in their mouth. Then they didn't really chew or anything, just kept opening their mouth. If you look hard enough, you can see some reddish greenish apple piling up in his mouth. Aren't their eyeballs kind of funny too?? They were very interesting to watch. They are so dangerous though, look at those teeth!

Here is my ALLIgator!!! Pretty cool, they weren't big ones, about 4 or 5 feet maybe.

Here I am again (Barry had the camera pretty much all day at the zoo). This is a yummy yummy snack. It is kind of vanilla-y, very sweet, crunchy, papery, just real different, but satisfyingly delicious. We each had one, Barry ate his around and around so he ended up with a little circle in the end, I just chowed down!

Barry really enjoyed this Tapir. By the way, on the way to the zoo, which we got to by tram then subway then bus, I totally had "we're going to the zoo zoo zoo..." stuck in my head. Makes me miss my baby sis!!! The reason I enjoyed the Tapir was because when we were in Honduras we saw a man with a Tapir on a leash and it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. Alli obviously doesn't remember though. Must have been too busy thinking about me that whole trip. PS. funny little side story. When we went to the grocery store today, Alli told me that when we get married I have to like going to the grocery store. And I was like when we what? Then she was like, I mean when we're home. She totally forgot we were married!!!!! Lol!

Ohhhh the elephants. These guys were great. They were our last stop and we had had a few Kozels, and they were just so fun. They danced!!! Yes that is right we saw dancing elephants. We watched them for a good 20 minutes and the whole time all three of them bobbed their heads up and down to a beat. It was hilarious!

YAY!!! I finally got to take a pick, Barry is happy to be in good company of me and the elephants of course!

Sweeties!!! They were loving on each other while they danced, so cute!

Don't worry. I got the dancing evidence on tape for you all to see. I am a pretty amazing movie taker, I give Barry a run for his money for sure. Like my scarf Jessi???? ;)

So we headed for "Jenna and Glenn's" place before we got on the tram to go home. We enjoyed the sunset, and actually ordered a lot of food!!! I guess we worked up an appetite after all that zooing. So here is a pick of goulash!!! The white thing is a dumpling, we prefer the hairy dumplings over this one, but they're main purpose is for sopping up all that juice. I am not a huge goulash fan, but it definitely isn't bad!

This is the beautiful pic Barry captured. He wants to paint it, wants me to, Jessi to, just everybody to paint it. We like that the focus is on that little fisherman amidst the beautiful castle and sunset.

Here is my favorite picture I took...I love the castle haha!!! It really doesn't get old to look at, hope the pics aren't getting old on the blaha either.

Alas!!! We trusted somebody with the camera. We felt safe since we were in a restaurant, and we think we looked him up and down and decided we could out run him!!! Anyways, he was very nice, and offered, and we are glad we have this lovely honeymoon pic of the two of us happy at sunset. Love you all!!
Na Videnou!

PS I am nervous about lack of showering next week when we head out of Czech Republic.
PPS While I wrote this blog Barry was making me do all these strange things like tap my foot to the Louis Armstrong we are listening too, and demanding me to type (which I am doing?) all while he is taking movies...lol high maintenance for sure!!!
PPPS We have tried the bread, pudding, twix, and cinniminnis from our grocery store trip so far!!! Hehe!